milde

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.

• MEDLI, elmid, limed, melid

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milde

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

milda +‎ -e

milde

1. mildly, gently

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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

milde

1. Alternative form of mile (“millet”)

milde

1. definite singular of mild
2. plural of mild

milde

1. definite singular of mild
2. plural of mild

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

Akin to Old Frisian milde, Middle Dutch milde (Dutch mild), Old High German milti (German mild), Old Norse mildr, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌳𐌹𐌸𐌰 (mildiþa, “kindness”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmil.de/, [ˈmiɫ.de]

milde (superlative mildust)

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

• mildelīċ
• mildelīċe
• mildheort
• mildheortlīċe
• mildheortness
• milts
• Mildþryþ (“female personal name”)

• Middle English: milde
  • Scots: mild, myld
  • English: mild

milde

1. definite natural masculine singular of mild