poultry
English
/ˈpɒltɹi/, /ˈpoʊltɹi/
noun
Definitions
- Domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys, and geese) raised for food (either meat or eggs).
- The meat from a domestic fowl.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English pultrie derived from Old French pouleterie derived from Latin pullus (chick, chicken, offspring, sprout of a plant, young animal, etc, child, cub, animal young, blackish, lamb, rooster, young of an animal, young, dusky coloured, dusky).
Origin
Latin
pullus
Gloss
chick, chicken, offspring, sprout of a plant, young animal, etc, child, cub, animal young, blackish, lamb, rooster, young of an animal, young, dusky coloured, dusky
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
鶏
Emoji
🐣 🐤 🐥
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- nonpoultry English
- poultryman English
- poultrywoman English
- woman English
- *pulletrus Latin
- *pulliter Latin
- pulla Latin
- pullamen Latin
- pullarius Latin
- pullastra Latin
- pulleiaceus Latin
- pullicēnus Latin
- pullinus Latin
- pulliter Latin
- pullus Latin
- pullāmen Latin
- pollo Italian
- poltrone Italian
- pollo Spanish, Castilian
- repollo Spanish, Castilian
- πῶλος Ancient Greek
- *polH- Proto-Indo-European
- pulet Middle English
- pulter Middle English
- pultrie Middle English
- pol Old French
- pouleterie Old French
- poll Catalan, Valencian
- repolo Galician
- pui Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- -πουλος Greek (modern)
- pulj Aromanian
- puljiu Aromanian
- fellus Maltese
- pollu Asturian
- poleç Friulian
- -ποῦλος gkm
- Pöll Central Franconian
- πουλλίον grc-koi