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Balt

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: bŏlt
  • UK: bôlt
  • UK: /bɒlt/
  • UK: /bɔːlt/
  • US: bôlt
  • US: /bɔlt/
  • cot-caught-merger: bält
  • cot-caught-merger: /bɑlt/
  • rhymes with -ɒlt
  • rhymes with -ɔːlt

1

noun

Meaning 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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A native speaker of one of the Baltic languages: Lithuanian, Latvian, Old Prussian, Sudovian and related languages.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

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Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

An inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states: Lithuania, Latvia or Estonia.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Balto-Slavic *bálˀtasbor.? Germanicbor.? Medieval Latin Balthae plbf. ▲ Latin Balthaeder. Latin Balticusbor. English Balticbf. English Balt Back-formation from Baltic and/or Medieval Latin and Late Latin Balthae; see Baltic for more.

Across languages

Translations

20 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: bàltic — inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states
  • Catalan: bàltica — inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states
  • Danish: balter — inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states
  • Finnish: baltti — inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states
  • French: Balte — inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states
  • Georgian: ბალტი (balṭi) — inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states
  • German: Balte — inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states
  • German: Baltin — inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states
  • Hungarian: balti — inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states
  • Italian: baltico — inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states
  • Italian: baltica — inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states
  • Norwegian Bokmål: balter — inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: baltar — inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states
  • Polish: Bałt — inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states
  • Polish: Bałtyjka — inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states
  • Spanish: báltico — inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states
  • Spanish: báltica — inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states
  • Swedish: balt — inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states
  • Swedish: baltiska — inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states
  • Welsh: Baltwr — inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states