Spelt Definition

spĕlt
noun
A type of wheat (Triticum spelta syn. T. aestivum subsp. spelta) having a tough hull. It was widely cultivated in southwest Asia, the Near East, and Europe during the Bronze Age and is now grown chiefly in Europe.
American Heritage
A primitive species (Triticum spelta) of wheat with grains that do not thresh free of the chaff: now seldom cultivated.
Webster's New World
(dialect, Northern England, Scotland) A thin piece of wood or metal; a splinter.
Wiktionary

(metalworking) Spelter.

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Synonyms:
  • Triticum aestivum spelta
  • Triticum spelta
verb

Spell.

Webster's New World

(chiefly UK) Simple past tense and past participle of spell.

Wiktionary

(obsolete) To split; to break; to spalt.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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Other Word Forms of Spelt

Noun

Singular:
spelt
Plural:
spelts

Origin of Spelt

  • From Middle English, from Old English spelt (“spelt, corn"), from Old Saxon spelta (“spelt"); or from Late Latin spelta (“spelt"), from Frankish *spelta (“spelt"); all from Proto-Germanic *spiltō, *spiltaz (“spelt"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pelbh-, *(s)pelbh-t- (“spelt, spelt meal"). Cognate with Old High German spelza (“spelt"), Modern German Spelz (“wheat-like cereal"), Dutch spelt (“spelt").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English from Late Latin spelta probably of Germanic origin Middle Dutch spelte wheat

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle High German spalden, or Old Norse spald.

    From Wiktionary

  • See spell

    From Wiktionary

Spelt Sentence Examples

  • Wheat, barley and spelt were the leading crops.

  • It may be added that Retz himself always spelt his designation "Rais."

  • Spelt is one of the oldest known grains.

  • He belonged to a Jewish family which, having been driven by the Inquisition from Spain, towards the end of the 15th century, settled as merchants at Venice, and assumed the name which has become famous; it was generally spelt D'Israeli until the middle of the, 9th century.

  • The Chinese name for central Tibet is Wei-Ts'ang, which is a transcription of the Tibetan designation of the two, provinces V and Tsang (spelt dbus-gtsang) that constitute central Tibet.

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Words Starting With

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