different between porridge vs polenta

English

Alternative forms

• parritch (Scotland)
• porage
• porrige

Etymology

Variant of pottage (“thick soup or stew”), influenced by porray (“stew of leeks”). The "prison sentence" sense comes from the British tradition of serving prisoners porridge for breakfast.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??.?d??/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /?p???d??/
• (NYC) IPA^(key): /?p???d??/
• Rhymes: -???d?

Noun

porridge (usually uncountable, plural porridges)

1. A dish made of grain or legumes, milk and/or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
2. (chiefly Britain) Oatmeal porridge.
3. (Britain, slang) A prison sentence.

4. (rare) A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.

Translations

See also

• congee
• gruel
• oatmeal
• stiff porridge

Further reading

• porridge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Périgord

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian polenta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??l?nt?/
• Hyphenation: po?len?ta
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Noun

polenta (countable and uncountable, plural polentas)

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

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:polenta.

Translations

Anagrams

• Lepanto, nepotal, tolpane

Finnish

Etymology

From Italian.

Noun

polenta

1. polenta

Declension

Anagrams

• lopetan, pelotan, peltona

French

Etymology

From Italian polenta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?.l?n.ta/

Noun

polenta f (plural polentas)

1. polenta

Italian

Etymology

From Latin polenta.

Noun

polenta f (plural polente)

1. polenta

Derived terms

• polentaio
• polentata
• polentina
• polentone

See also

• mais

Anagrams

• Lepanto, pentola, Platone

Latin

Alternative forms

• polentum

Etymology

From or related to pollen. Cf. also Ancient Greek ???? (pál?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /po?len.ta/, [p?????n?t?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /po?len.ta/, [p??l?n?t??]

Noun

polenta f (genitive polentae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• polent?cius
• polent?rius

Descendants

References

• 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, 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

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin polenta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?lenta/, [po?l?n?.t?a]

Noun

polenta f (plural polentas)

1. polenta