pellis

Meaning “skin” or “hide,” the root *pel- underlies Latin words that preserved the initial p, such as pellis, for “skin,” and related words that English gained from Latin via French, such as peel and, indeed, pelt.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Meaning “skin” or “hide,” the root *pel- underlies Latin words that preserved the initial p, such as pellis, for “skin,” and related words that English gained from Latin via French, such as peel and, indeed, pelt.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Maerore maceror, marcesco et consenesco miser, ossa atque pellis sum misera macritudice.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

The epidermis will close over, and the cutis and the pellis.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

De posteriori parte pellis equi faciunt pulcherrimos soculares.

The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

De posteriori parte pellis equi faciunt pulcherrimos soculares.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Ego, qui tuo maerore maceror, macesco, consenesco et tabesco miser; ossa atque pellis sum miser a macritudine; neque umquam quicquam me iuvat quod edo domi: foris aliquantillum etiam quod gusto, id beat.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

Quia ossa ac pellis totust, ita cura macet. quin exta inspicere in sole ei vivo licet: ita is pellucet quasi lanterna Punica.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

A Pilcher made pilches, i.e. fur cloaks, an early loan-word from Vulgar Lat. pellicia (pellis, skin).

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

Profecto fuit quand non eras: postea de vili materia factus, et vilissimo panno involutus, menstruali sanguine in utero materno fuisti nutritus, et tunica tua fuit pellis secundina.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899