pellicula
See also: pel·lícula
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pellicula.
Noun
pellicula (plural pelliculae)
- Alternative form of pellicle (“thin layer in biology etc.”).
Latin
Etymology
From pellis (“skin, hide”) + -cula (diminutive suffix).
(a female prostitute): Compare typologically scortum, Russian шку́ра (škúra).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɛlˈlɪ.kʊ.ɫa]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [pelˈliː.ku.la]
Noun
pellicula f (genitive pelliculae); first declension
- diminutive of pellis (“skin, hide”)
- a female prostitute
- Synonym: scortum
- (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
- Asturian: pelleya, pelleyu
- → Asturian: película (learned)
- → Catalan: pel·lícula (learned)
- → English: pellicle (learned)
- → French: pellicule (learned)
- → Romanian: peliculă
- → Galician: pelella, película (learned)
- → Italian: pellicola (semi-learned)
- → Portuguese: película (learned)
- Spanish: pelleja
- → Spanish: película
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, 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.