pollo
See also: pöllö
Italian
Etymology
From Latin pullus, from Proto-Indo-European *polH- (“animal young”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpol.lo/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ollo
- Hyphenation: pól‧lo
Noun
pollo m (plural polli)
- (meats) chicken (especially chicken meat)
- (slang) sucker, chump, dupe or patsy
- (slang) pushover or weakling
Derived terms
- pollaio
- pollo delle pampas
- pollo sultano
Related terms
- pollare
- pollastra
- pollino
- pulcino
- pullulare
Further reading
- pollo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Spanish
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pollo (1)
Etymology
From Latin pullus, from Proto-Indo-European *polH- (“animal young”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈpoʝo/ [ˈpo.ʝo]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /ˈpoʎo/ [ˈpo.ʎo]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈpoʃo/ [ˈpo.ʃo]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈpoʒo/ [ˈpo.ʒo]
- (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -oʝo
- (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -oʎo
- (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -oʃo
- (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -oʒo
- Syllabification: po‧llo
- Homophone: poyo
Noun
pollo m (plural pollos)
- chicken (meat)
- pollo frito ― fried chicken
- young chicken (specially a male, or one of unspecified gender)
- (colloquial) fuss, scene
- Synonyms: lío, escándalo
- montar un pollo ― to make a fuss
Adjective
pollo (feminine polla, masculine plural pollos, feminine plural pollas)
- (Chile, slang) unexperienced
Hyponyms
- (animal): gallina
- (animal): gallo
- (meat): pollo agridulce (“sweet and sour chicken”)
- (meat): pollo a la naranja (“orange chicken”)
- (meat): pollo a la parrilla (“grilled chicken”)
- (meat): pollo asado (“roast chicken, roasted chicken”)
- (meat): pollo frito (“fried chicken”)
Derived terms
- como si te la pica un pollo
- echarse el pollo
- memoria de pollo
- montar el pollo
- montar un pollo
- pastel de pollo
- polla
- pollería
- pollito
- pollito feliz
- pollo a la naranja
- polluelo
- sudar como un pollo
Related terms
- pollero
- pollino
- pulular
- repollo
Descendants
- → Portuguese: polho
Further reading
- “pollo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014