pellacia

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Latin

Etymology

From pellāx (seductive) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

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.

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