pollo

Spanish

[ˈpo.ʒo]

noun
Definitions
  • chicken (meat)
  • young chicken (specially a male, or one of unspecified gender)

Etymology

Inherited 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) derived from Proto-Indo-European *polH- (animal young).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*polH-

Gloss

animal young

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