spelta

From Late Latin spelta (“spelt”), from Frankish *spelta (“spelt”), from Proto-Germanic *spiltaz (“spelt”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɛl.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɛlta
• Hyphenation: spèl‧ta

spelta f (plural spelte)

1. spelt (Triticum spelta)

• farro

Borrowed from Frankish *spelta, from Proto-Germanic *spiltaz.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈspel.ta/, [ˈs̠pɛɫ̪t̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈspel.ta/, [ˈspɛl̪t̪ä]

spelta f (genitive speltae); first declension

1. spelt (cereal) (Triticum spelta)

First-declension noun.

• “spelta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• spelta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• spelta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.