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Latin
Etymology
From pellāx (“seductive”) + -ia.
Pronunciation
Noun
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.
Declension
First-declension noun.
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