pulto

Latin

Etymology

Intensive of pellō.

Pronunciation

Verb

pultō (present infinitive pultāre, perfect active pultāvī, supine pultātum); first conjugation

  1. (pre-Classical) to beat, strike, knock
    • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 581:
      comēsse pānem trīs pedēs lātum potes, forēs pultāre nescīs.
      thou art able to eat up a loaf three feet broad, (but) knowest not how to knock on a door.

Conjugation

References

  • pulto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • pulto in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
  • pulto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press