pellacia
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From pellāx (“seductive”) + -ia.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pelˈlaː.ki.a/, [pɛlˈlʲäːkiä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pelˈla.t͡ʃi.a/, [pelˈläːt͡ʃiä]
Noun edit
pellācia f (genitive pellāciae); first declension
- allurement, enticement
- c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 5.1002–1005:
- nam temere in cassum frūstrā mare saepe coortum
saevībat leviterque minās pōnēbat inānīs,
nec poterat quemquam placidī pellācia pontī
subdola pellicere in fraudem rīdentibus undīs.
- nam temere in cassum frūstrā mare saepe coortum
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pellācia | pellāciae |
| Genitive | pellāciae | pellāciārum |
| Dative | pellāciae | pellāciīs |
| Accusative | pellāciam | pellāciās |
| Ablative | pellāciā | pellāciīs |
| Vocative | pellācia | pellāciae |
References edit
- “pellacia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pellacia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- pellacia in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung