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Latin
Etymology
For unattested pellex, from pelliciō + -s (confer illex from illiciō), with replacement of -ex by the suffix -āx (“inclined to”) after fallāx with a similar meaning.[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
pellāx (genitive pellācis, adverb pellāciter); third-declension one-termination adjective
- deceitful, deceptive
- Synonym: fallāx
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 2.90:
- invidiā postquam pellācis Ulixī
(haud ignōta loquor) superīs concessit ab ōrīs,
adflīctus vītam in tenebrīs lūctūque trahēbam
et cāsum insontis mēcum indignābar amīcī.
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Derived terms
References
- “pellax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pellax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- pellax in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung