malter

See also: Malter and mȧlter

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒltə/, /ˈmɔːltə/
• (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.