milde

See also: Milde

English

Adjective

milde (comparative milder, superlative mildest)

  1. Obsolete spelling of mild
    • 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, A Preface to the Reader:
      M. Wotton, a man milde of nature, with soft voice, and fewe wordes, inclined to M. Secretaries iudgement, and said, in mine opinion, the Scholehouse should be in deede, as it is called by name, the house of playe and pleasure, and not of feare and bondage: and as I do remember, so saith Socrates in one place of Plato.

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Adjective

milde

  1. inflection of mild:
    1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
    2. definite neuter singular attributive
    3. plural attributive

Esperanto

Etymology

milda + -e

Adverb

milde

  1. mildly, gently

German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

milde

  1. Alternative form of mild (Still common in the sense of merciful, otherwise obsolete.)
  2. inflection of mild:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Middle English

Noun

milde

  1. Alternative form of mile (millet)

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

milde

  1. definite singular of mild
  2. plural of mild

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

milde

  1. definite singular of mild
  2. plural of mild

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mildijaz (gentle, mild).

Akin to Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (Dutch mild), Old High German milti (German mild), Old Norse mildr, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌳𐌹𐌸𐌰 (mildiþa, kindness).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmil.de/, [ˈmiɫ.de]

Adjective

milde

  1. mild, gentle, kind, merciful, generous; meek

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
    • Scots: mild, myld
    • English: mild

Swedish

Adjective

milde

  1. definite natural masculine singular of mild
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