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
 

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

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

Further reading
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