πόλτος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (flour, dust), like πάλη (pálē, fine flour), πέλανος (pélanos, thick liquid substance), Latin puls (porridge) and pollen (flour, powder). Others have connected this noun with substrate words like παλάθη (paláthē, cake of conserved fruits) and πλάθανον (pláthanon, cake mold); Latin puls and Proto-Germanic *spiltaz (spelt) may be from a related substrate source.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

πόλτος • (póltosm (genitive πόλτου); second declension

  1. porridge made of flour

Inflection

Derived terms

  • πολτᾰ́ρῐον (poltắrĭon)
  • πολτοποιέω (poltopoiéō)
  • πολτώδης (poltṓdēs)

Descendants

  • Greek: πολτός (poltós) (accent probably influenced by πελτές)
  • Turkish: pelte
    • Greek: πελτές (peltés)

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