pellis

See also: pel·lis

Latin
Pellis Didelphis virginiana.

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 (pélma, “sole of the foot”), Old English fell (“fell, skin, hide; garment of skin”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

pellis f (genitive pellis); third declension

  1. (zootomy) pelt, fell, hide, animal skin; (poetic) human skin
  2. (transferred sense)
    1. leather
    2. (clothing) a garment, article of clothing made of skin
    3. (military) a tent for soldiers (because it was covered with skins)
    4. a parchment
    5. (music) a drum
    6. (mycology) a thin peelable film covering the outside of a sporocarp

Inflection

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pellis pellēs
Genitive pellis pellium
Dative pellī pellibus
Accusative pellem pellēs
pellīs
Ablative pelle pellibus
Vocative pellis pellēs

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: cheali
    • Romanian: piele
  • Dalmatian:
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:
  • North Italian:
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitano-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Borrowings:
    • → English: pell
    • → Old Irish: pell
    • → Old Norse: pilz
      • Icelandic: pils
      • Norwegian Bokmål: pels
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: pels

References
  • “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
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “pellis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 455
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