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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A member of a Baltic-speaking people.
  • noun A native or inhabitant of Lithuania, Latvia, or Estonia.

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  • noun An inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states: Lithuania, Latvia or Estonia.
  • noun An ethnic descendant of the Indo-European Baltic people, especially including ethnic Lithuanians, Latvians or Prussians, but generally not including ethnic Belarusians, Estonians, Germans, Jews, Livonians, Poles, Russians, Swedes or Tatars who have also inhabited or currently inhabit the modern Baltic states.
  • noun A native speaker of one of the Baltic languages: Lithuanian, Latvian, Old Prussian, Sudovian and related languages.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Medieval Latin Balthae, Balts.]

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From Medieval Latin Balthae

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