pellicula

See also: pel·lícula

English

Noun

pellicula (plural pelliculae)

1. Alternative form of pellicle (“thin layer in biology etc.”).

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɛlˈlɪ.kʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pelˈliː.ku.la]

Noun

pellicula f (genitive pelliculae); first declension

1. diminutive of pellis (“skin, hide”)
2. a female prostitute

   Synonym: scortum

3. (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
• → 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
  • Chavacano: pelicula
  • → Basque: pelikula
  • → Cebuano: pelikula
  • → Hiligaynon: pelikula
  • → Ilocano: pelikula
  • → Tagalog: pelikula

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.