The story
- Latin · derived frompellicula“small skin or hide”
- English todaypellicule
Borrowed from Latin pellicula (“small skin or hide”), from Latin pellis (“a skin”) + Latin -cula. Cognate with French pellicule, Spanish película.
Words from the same roots
Latinpellicula all →
pelliclepellage
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.