πόλτος

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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πόλτος (póltosm (genitive πόλτου); second declension

  1. porridge made of flour

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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

Further reading

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