pellicle
Meaninga little skin
Common meaning: a fine membrane or coating
- pellan animal's hide, skinLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1326 · scan
- iclesmall, diminutive ending
Journey through time
- Latinpellis, -is‘an animal's hide, skin’
- Frenchpellicule
- Englishpellicle‘a fine membrane or coating’ · today
pell also in: pelt
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin pellis ‘an animal's hide, skin’.
Roots
- pellis, -is Latin “an animal's hide, skin”
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