pellis

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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]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpel.lis/, [ˈpɛlːʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpel.lis/, [ˈpɛlːis]

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

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Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• “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