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polta.

a sort of polenta made from white flour or fava flour, used as food before the discovery of bread

5 characters2 syllables approx.Italiano language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈpol.ta/
  1. a sort of polenta made from white flour or fava flour, used as food before the discovery of bread

    Ancient-Rome · feminine · literary
  2. a sort of polenta made from white flour or fava flour, used as food before the discovery of bread a confused mixture; muddle

    Ancient-Rome · broadly · feminine · literary
Where this word comes from

With a change in ending, from Latin pultem (“meal, porridge”), from Ancient Greek πόλτος (póltos), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”).

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