spelt
pronunciation
How to pronounce spelt in British English:
UK [spelt]
How to pronounce spelt in American English:
US [ spelt]
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- Noun:
- hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed
Word Origin
- spelt (n.)
- type of grain, Old English spelt "spelt, corn," perhaps an early borrowing from Late Latin spelta "spelt" (noted as a foreign word), which is perhaps from Germanic *spilt-, from PIE *speld-, extended form of root *spel- (1) "to split, to break off" (probably in reference to the splitting of its husks in threshing); see spill (v.). The word had little currency in English, and its history is discontinuous. Widespread in Romanic languages (Italian spelta, Spanish espelta, Old French spelte, Modern French épeautre). The word also is widespread in Germanic (Old High German spelta, German Spelt), and a Germanic language is perhaps the source of the Late Latin word.
Example
- 1. That boy has correctly spelt his name .
- 2. You have spelt the word wrong .
- 3. I wonder if I 've spelt it right .
- 4. That 's officially spelt out in the latest five-year plan .
- 5. He also spelt out phrma 's softening stance toward health-care reforms that the group has hitherto opposed .