pellacia

Latin

Etymology

From pellāx (“seductive”) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pelˈlaː.ki.a/, [pɛlˈlʲäːkiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pelˈla.t͡ʃi.a/, [pelˈläːt͡ʃiä]

Noun

pellācia f (genitive pellāciae); first declension

1. 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.

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Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pellācia	pellāciae
genitive	pellāciae	pellāciārum
dative	pellāciae	pellāciīs
accusative	pellāciam	pellāciās
ablative	pellāciā	pellāciīs
vocative	pellācia	pellāciae

References

• “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