polenta

Borrowed from Italian polenta.

• IPA^(key): /pəˈlɛntə/
• Hyphenation: po‧len‧ta
• Rhymes: -ɛntə

polenta (countable and uncountable, plural polentas)

English Wikipedia has an article on:

polenta

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1. Any of various types and consistencies of a starchy accompaniment to a meal made from coarse maize-meal porridge, sometimes fried or grilled.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:polenta.

• Lepanto, nepotal, tolpane

From Italian.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpolentɑ/,
• Rhymes: -olentɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): po‧len‧ta

polenta

1. polenta

• “polenta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• lopetan, pelotan, peltona

From Italian polenta.

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.lɛn.ta/

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polenta f (plural polentas)

1. polenta

• “polenta”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

polenta

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From Latin polenta.

• IPA^(key): /poˈlɛn.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɛnta
• Hyphenation: po‧lèn‧ta

polenta f (plural polente)

1. polenta

• polentaio
• polentata
• polentina
• polentone

• → Catalan: polenta
• → English: polenta
• → Finnish: polenta
• → French: polenta
• → German: Polenta, Plente
• → Turkish: polenta

• mais

• Lepanto, Platone, pentola, platone, talpone

• polentum

From or related to pollen. Cf. also Ancient Greek πάλη (pálē).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /poˈlen.ta/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /poˈlen.ta/,

polenta f (genitive polentae); first declension

1. pearl barley, peeled-barley, hulled and crushed grain, groats
2. barley meal

First-declension noun.

• polentācius
• polentārius

• “polenta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “polenta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• polenta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• polenta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “polenta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “polenta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

From Venetan polenta or Italian polenta.

polenta f (plural polentas)

1. polenta

• fubá

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

polenta

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Borrowed from Latin polenta.

• IPA^(key): /poˈlenta/
• Rhymes: -enta
• Syllabification: po‧len‧ta

polenta f (plural polentas)

1. polenta

• “polenta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10