Balt

//bɔlt// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An ethnic descendant of the Indo-European Baltic people, especially including ethnic Lithuanians, Latvians or Prussians, but generally not including ethnic Belarusians, Estonians, Germans, Jews, Livonians, Poles, Russians, Swedes or Tatars who have also inhabited or currently inhabit the modern Baltic states.
  2. 2
    A native speaker of one of the Baltic languages: Lithuanian, Latvian, Old Prussian, Sudovian and related languages.
  3. 3
    An inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states: Lithuania, Latvia or Estonia. rare

Example

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"Balt was ferociously exultant, Emerson was boiling with impatience, while Fraser, whose calm nothing disturbed, slept most of the time, observing that this was his last good bed for a while, and therefore he wished to make it work."

Etymology

From Medieval Latin and Late Latin Balthae; see Baltic.

Related phrases

Balto-Slavicindo europeanold prussian

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