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

 

• IPA^(key): /pól.tos/ → /ˈpol.tos/ → /ˈpol.tos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pól.tos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpol.tos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpol.tos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpol.tos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpol.tos/

Noun

πόλτος • (póltos) m (genitive πόλτου); second declension

1. porridge made of flour

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πόλτος; τοῦ πόλτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

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

 

Descendants

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

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