pollo
Appearance
See also: pöllö
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin pullus, from Proto-Indo-European *polH- (“animal young”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pollo m (plural polli)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- pollo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin pullus, from Proto-Indo-European *polH- (“animal young”).
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Syllabification: po‧llo
Noun
[edit]pollo m (plural pollos)
- chicken (meat)
- pollo frito ― fried chicken
- young chicken (specially a male, or one of unspecified gender)
- (colloquial) fuss, scene
- (colloquial, gay slang) twink (a young, attractive, slim man)
- Antonym: oso
Adjective
[edit]pollo (feminine polla, masculine plural pollos, feminine plural pollas)
- (Chile, slang) inexperienced
- Synonym: inexperto
Hyponyms
[edit]- (animal): gallina
- (animal): gallo
- (meat): pollo a la naranja (“orange chicken”)
- (meat): pollo a la parrilla (“grilled chicken”)
- (meat): pollo agridulce (“sweet and sour chicken”)
- (meat): pollo asado (“roast chicken, roasted chicken”)
- (meat): pollo frito (“fried chicken”)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Portuguese: polho
Further reading
[edit]- “pollo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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- es:Meats
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