The corpus record — Latin

pellacia

pellacia · f

an allurement

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Where it lives

Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

pellācĭa — Lewis & Short

pellācĭa, ae, f.pellax,

I an allurement, enticement, blandishment.

I In gen. (poet. and very rare; in Verg. G. 4, 443, fallacia is the correct read.; v. Wagner ad loc.): placidi pellacia ponti, Lucr. 5, 1004.—

II In partic., seduction (post-class.): Jovialis monumentum pellaciae, Arn. 5, 171; 4, 147.

In the wild

pellacia Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.1004
pellacia Propertius, Elegiae 1.1.19
pellacia Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.559
pellacia Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.3.25
pellacia Prudentius, Hamartigenia 1.637

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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