polli

Polli is the plural form of pollo in Italian. It refers to multiple chickens or to poultry collectively. In ordinary usage, pollo denotes a chicken or chicken meat in the singular; polli is used when speaking of more than one bird, or when referring to chickens as a category in farming, markets, or recipes that mention birds rather than meat.

Origin and linguistics: Polli derives from the Latin pullus, meaning a young animal or chick. The Italian vocabulary developed pollo as the singular noun and polli as the plural.

Other uses: Polli is also a surname of Italian origin. People with the surname Polli can be found in Italy and among Italian communities abroad. The term may appear in proper names or in contexts where Italian language forms are preserved, but outside Italian it is primarily recognized as a word for poultry and as a surname.