type of grain, Old English spelt "spelt, corn," perhaps an early borrowing from Late Latin spelta "spelt" (noted as a foreign word), which is perhaps from Germanic *spilt-, from PIE *speld-, extended form of root *spel- (1) "to split, to break off" (probably in reference to the splitting of its husks in threshing); see spill (v.).
The word had little currency in English, and its history is discontinuous. Widespread in Romanic languages (Italian spelta, Spanish espelta, Old French spelte, Modern French épeautre). The word also is widespread in Germanic (Old High German spelta, German Spelt), and a Germanic language is perhaps the source of the Late Latin word.
雙語例句
1. He gave his name and then helpfully spelt it.
他說出自己的名字，然后又熱心地將它拼了出來。
來自柯林斯例句
2. "Tang" is "Gnat" spelt backwards.
Gnat倒著寫出來就是Tang。
來自柯林斯例句
3. His speech spelt out his party's policy on foreign affairs.
他的演說闡明了他的政黨的對外政策.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. You have spelt this word wrong.
你把這個詞拼錯了.
來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
5. Owing to a typographical error, the town of Longridge was spelt as Longbridge.