pellicula

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See also: pel·lícula

Latin

Etymology

From pellis (“skin, hide”) +‎ -cula (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

pellicula f (genitive pelliculae); first declension

  1. diminutive of pellis (“skin, hide”)
  2. (New Latin) movie, film, video
    Synonym: (New Latin) taeniola

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative pellicula pelliculae
genitive pelliculae pelliculārum
dative pelliculae pelliculīs
accusative pelliculam pelliculās
ablative pelliculā pelliculīs
vocative pellicula pelliculae

Descendants

References

  • “pellicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pellicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pellicula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • pellicula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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