πόλτος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pól.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpol.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpol.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpol.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpol.tos/
Noun
πόλτος • (póltos) m (genitive πόλτου); second declension
- porridge made of flour
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ πόλτος; τοῦ πόλτου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ πόλτος ho póltos | τὼ πόλτω tṑ póltō | οἱ πόλτοι hoi póltoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πόλτου toû póltou | τοῖν πόλτοιν toîn póltoin | τῶν πόλτων tôn póltōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πόλτῳ tôi póltōi | τοῖν πόλτοιν toîn póltoin | τοῖς πόλτοις toîs póltois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν πόλτον tòn pólton | τὼ πόλτω tṑ póltō | τοὺς πόλτους toùs póltous | ||||||||||
Vocative | πόλτε pólte | πόλτω póltō | πόλτοι póltoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- πολτάριον (poltárion)
- πολτοποιέω (poltopoiéō)
- πολτώδης (poltṓdēs)
Further reading
- πόλτος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πόλτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN