pulto

Latin > English

pulto pultare, pultavi, pultatus V TRANS :: knock, strike

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

pulto: āre, v. freq. a. collat. form of pulso, from pello,
I to beat, strike, knock (ante-class.; cf. Quint. 1, 4, 14): pectus digitis pultat, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 47: ostium, Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 3: fores, id. Heaut. 2, 3, 34: januam, Plaut. Poen. 3, 4, 30: aedes, id. Most. 2, 1, 56.—Absol., of knocking at the door, Plaut. As. 2, 3, 2: placide, id. Men. 1, 2, 65: pedibus, id. Most. 1, 2, 23.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

(1) pultō, āre (pello), tr., frapper, heurter : fores Pl. Bacch. 581, frapper à la porte, cf. Pl. Mil. 202.

Latin > German (Georges)

pulto, āvī, āre = pulso, an etw. klopfen, stoßen, schlagen, ianuam, Plaut., od. fores od. ostium, Ter., anklopfen: so auch aedes, Plaut.: pectus digitis, Plaut.: absol., pulta, Plaut.: placide (leise) pulta, Plaut.: pultando paene confregi hasce ambas fores, Plaut.