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Latin
Etymology
Intensive of pellō.
Pronunciation
Verb
pultō (present infinitive pultāre, perfect active pultāvī, supine pultātum); first conjugation
- (pre-Classical) to beat, strike, knock
c. 190 BCE,
Plautus,
Bacchides 581:
- comēsse pānem trīs pedēs lātum potes, forēs pultāre nescīs.
- thou art able to eat up a loaf three feet broad, (but) knowest not how to knock on a door.
Conjugation
References
- pulto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- pulto in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- “pulto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press