pollo
Italian (Fiorentino)
noun
Definitions
- (meats) chicken (especially chicken meat)
- (slang) sucker, chump, dupe or patsy
- (slang) pushover or weakling
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
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- pollotarian 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
- pullārium Latin
- pullārius Latin
- pullārius, pullāria, pullāriō Latin
- pullō, pullus Latin
- pollaio Italian
- pollaiolo Italian
- polleria Italian
- pollicoltore Italian
- pollivendolo Italian
- poltrone Italian
- trinciapolli Italian
- trinciare Italian
- pollo Spanish, Castilian
- repollo Spanish, Castilian
- πῶλος Ancient Greek
- *dʰelk- Proto-Indo-European
- *peh₂w- Proto-Indo-European
- *polH- Proto-Indo-European
- *falkô Proto-Germanic
- pol Old French
- pouleterie Old French
- poll Catalan, Valencian
- repolo Galician
- pui Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- puiandru Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- puică Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- puiet Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- puișor Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- -πουλος Greek (modern)
- pulj Aromanian
- puljiu Aromanian
- fellus Maltese
- pollu Asturian
- poleç Friulian
- -ποῦλος gkm
- Pöll Central Franconian
- πουλλίον grc-koi