malter

See also: Malter and mȧlter

English

Etymology

From Middle English maltare, malter, maltar; equivalent to malt +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔːltə(ɹ)/, /ˈmɒltə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔl.tɚ/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑl.tɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɒltə(ɹ), -ɔːltə(ɹ)
• Homophone: Malta (non-rhotic)

Noun

malter (plural malters)

1. (dated) A person who makes malt; a maltster.

Anagrams

• Martel, Tramel, armlet, martel, tramel

French

Etymology

From malt +‎ -er, borrowed through Frankish from Proto-Germanic *maltą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mal.te/

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Verb

malter

1. to malt

Conjugation

Conjugation of malter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	malter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	maltant /mal.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		malté /mal.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	malte /malt/	maltes /malt/	malte /malt/	maltons /mal.tɔ̃/	maltez /mal.te/	maltent /malt/
	imperfect	maltais /mal.tɛ/	maltais /mal.tɛ/	maltait /mal.tɛ/	maltions /mal.tjɔ̃/	maltiez /mal.tje/	maltaient /mal.tɛ/
	past historic2	maltai /mal.te/	maltas /mal.ta/	malta /mal.ta/	maltâmes /mal.tam/	maltâtes /mal.tat/	maltèrent /mal.tɛʁ/
	future	malterai /mal.tə.ʁe/	malteras /mal.tə.ʁa/	maltera /mal.tə.ʁa/	malterons /mal.tə.ʁɔ̃/	malterez /mal.tə.ʁe/	malteront /mal.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	malterais /mal.tə.ʁɛ/	malterais /mal.tə.ʁɛ/	malterait /mal.tə.ʁɛ/	malterions /mal.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	malteriez /mal.tə.ʁje/	malteraient /mal.tə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	malte /malt/	maltes /malt/	malte /malt/	maltions /mal.tjɔ̃/	maltiez /mal.tje/	maltent /malt/
	imperfect2	maltasse /mal.tas/	maltasses /mal.tas/	maltât /mal.ta/	maltassions /mal.ta.sjɔ̃/	maltassiez /mal.ta.sje/	maltassent /mal.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	malte /malt/	—	maltons /mal.tɔ̃/	maltez /mal.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• malt
• maltage

Further reading

• “malter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Bavarian and Austrian German German Malter, a metathetic variant of standard German Mörtel, in turn from Latin mortarium. First attested in Hungarian in 1787.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒltɛr]
• Hyphenation: mal‧ter
• Rhymes: -ɛr

Noun

malter (plural malterek)

1. [from 1787] mortar (mixture of lime or cement, sand and water)

   Synonym: habarcs

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	malter	malterek
accusative	maltert	maltereket
dative	malternek	maltereknek
instrumental	malterrel	malterekkel
causal-final	malterért	malterekért
translative	malterré	malterekké
terminative	malterig	malterekig
essive-formal	malterként	malterekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	malterben	malterekben
superessive	malteren	maltereken
adessive	malternél	maltereknél
illative	malterbe	malterekbe
sublative	malterre	malterekre
allative	malterhez	malterekhez
elative	malterből	malterekből
delative	malterről	malterekről
ablative	maltertől	malterektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	malteré	maltereké
non-attributive possessive - plural	malteréi	malterekéi

Possessive forms of malter
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	malterem	maltereim
2nd person sing.	maltered	maltereid
3rd person sing.	maltere	malterei
1st person plural	malterünk	maltereink
2nd person plural	malteretek	maltereitek
3rd person plural	malterük	maltereik

Related terms

• mozsár (“mortar”, a hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle)

Further reading

• malter in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Mörtel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mǎlter/
• Hyphenation: mal‧ter

Noun

màlter m (Cyrillic spelling ма̀лтер)

1. (uncountable) mortar

Declension

Declension of malter

	singular
nominative	malter
genitive	maltera
dative	malteru
accusative	malter
vocative	maltere
locative	malteru
instrumental	malterom

References

• “malter”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024