pellis Latin · revision 2929

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *pel-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈpɛl.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈpɛl.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pellis''' ''f'' (genitive pellis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*pelni-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*pel-ni-|t=skin, hide]], from a root *pel- that may have meant “to strip, skin” but is not found on its own.^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Cognate with [[lt|plėnė̃|t=membrane]], [[ang|fell|t=skin, hide]] and [[non|fjall]],^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) and with [[grc|πέλμα|tr=pélma|t=sole of the foot]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Plautus onwards.^(de Vaan 2008) Cato tells the farmer to take a snakeskin as part of a remedy.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant the [[m|en|skin]] or hide of an animal, and in poetry human skin.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) A stripped hide was a commodity, as in Cato's list of things a farmer sells: oil, wool and skins.^(OLD 2012) Treated hide was leather, and so straps or a shoe, as in Ovid's “do not let your foot swim in a loose shoe”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Because soldiers' tents were covered with skins, it also meant a tent, and it was used for parchment.^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) It survives as Romanian ''piele'', Italian ''pelle'', French ''peau'', Spanish ''piel'' and Portuguese ''pele''.^(Wiktionary) English ''pell'' meant a skin in the 14th century and a roll of parchment in the 15th.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it for a snakeskin and for hides sold by a farmer.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar describes animals' skins.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it for a shoe.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-14th century – English ''pell'' “skin” is first recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The [[m|en|skin]], hide (of an animal), ''(poetic)'' human skin.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A hide (as a commodity); a pelt.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|Leather]]; a strap; a shoe.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A tent (covered with skins).^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|Parchment]].^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[pellārius]]

+ * [[pelleatus]]

+ * [[pellesuīna]]

+ * [[pellicius]]

+ * [[pellicula]]

+ * [[pellinus]]

+ * [[pelliris]]

+ * [[pellītus]]

+ * [[centipelliō]]

+ * [[tentipellium]]

+ * [[versipellis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|pell]]

+ * [[en|fell]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}