welter

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɛltə/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɛltɚ/ Rhymes: -ɛltə(ɹ) === Etymology 1 === From Middle English welteren, equivalent to welt +‎ -er (frequentative suffix). Cognates include German Low German weltern (“to wallow; roll”), Old Norse velta (Danish vælte), German wälzen, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌻𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (waltjan). Akin to wallow and Latin volvō. ==== Noun ==== welter (plural welters) A general confusion or muddle, especially of a large number of items. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hodgepodge A tossing or rolling about. ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== welter (third-person singular simple present welters, present participle weltering, simple past and past participle weltered) (intransitive) To roll around; to wallow. (intransitive, figurative) To revel, luxuriate. 1537, Hugh Latimer, Sermon III, Preached to the Convocation of the Clergy, in The Sermons of Hugh Latimer, London: J. Scott, 1783, Volume I, p. 38,[3] When we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards. 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, “Ivlye” [“July”], lines 197-198, in Ernest de Sélincourt (ed.) Spenser’s Minor Poems, Oxford: Clarendon Press,1910, p. 73[4] These wisards weltre in welths waues, pampred in pleasures deepe, They han fatte kernes, and leany knaues, their fasting flockes to keepe. (intransitive, of waves, billows) To rise and fall, to tumble over, to roll. ===== Derived terms ===== bewelter ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) ==== Adjective ==== welter Heavyweight. (of horsemen) a welter race ===== Derived terms ===== welter-weight ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 3 === Compare wilt (intransitive verb). ==== Verb ==== welter (third-person singular simple present welters, present participle weltering, simple past and past participle weltered) To wither; to wilt. 1860, Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilization, and Other Essays, London: Bell & Dalday, “Ultimate Civilization,” Part I, IV, p. 40,[10] But look now into the weltered hearts and blighted memories of those whom we have gathered from out of the thousands of the lost and wretched. === Anagrams === Lewter == Italian == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English welter. === Noun === welter m (invariable) welter-weight Synonym: peso welter