pellis

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *pelnis, from Proto-Indo-European *pel-ni-s (“to cover, wrap; skin, hide; cloth”), from *pel- (“to cover, wrap; skin, hide; cloth”). Cognate with Ancient Greek πέλμᾰ (pélmă, “sole of the foot”), Old English fell (“fell, skin, hide; garment of skin”), likely with English pelt (“skin of an animal”) as well. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpɛl.lɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpɛl.lis] === Noun === pellis f (genitive pellis); third declension (live) animal skin; pelt, fell, hide; leather Synonyms: corium; spolium, vellus, scortum; alūta (poetic) human skin Synonym: cutis (transferred sense) (clothing) a garment, article of clothing made of skin (military) a tent for soldiers (they were covered with skins) Hypernyms: tabernāculum, tentōrium a parchment Synonym: membrāna (music) a drum Synonym: tympanum (mycology, New Latin) a thin peelable film covering the outside of a sporocarp ==== Inflection ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “pellis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “pellis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “pellis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “pellis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “pellis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin