Baltic Definition
bôltĭk
adjective
Of or relating to the Baltic Sea, the Baltic States, or a Baltic-speaking people.
American Heritage
Of the Baltic Sea.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to the branch of the Indo-European language family that contains Latvian, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian.
American Heritage
Of the Baltic States.
Webster's New World
Designating or of a branch of the Indo-European language family that includes Lithuanian, Latvian, and Old Prussian.
Webster's New World
noun
The Baltic language branch.
American Heritage
The Baltic branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
- Baltic language
- baltic-sea
pronoun
The Baltic languages.
Wiktionary
The Baltic states.
Wiktionary
The areas on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea.
Wiktionary
The Baltic Sea.
Wiktionary
Origin of Baltic
Related to Latin balteus (“belt”), referring to the Danish straits, "the Belts". This is suggested by Adam of Bremen, who in the 11th century first recorded the name (Balticus, eo quod in modum baltei longo tractu per Scithicas regiones tendatur usque in Greciam).
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From Lithuanian baltas (“white”), which is from Proto-Indo-European *bhel- (“white”)
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From North Germanic *balta (“straight”), in reference to the narrow entrenceway of the sea
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