- Supporters: Two
bucks proper.
Latin Motto: Latin: pro
pelle cutem, lit. 'skin for leather'
apparently a play on Job, 2:4:
Pellem pro
pelle "skin for skin"....
- man maun man main /mɛ̃/ man [ma] mà man mano mano mão [mɐ̃w̃] man skin
pellem pèdhe
piele peḍḍi [pεdːɪ]
pella [pɛlːə]
pelle pelle [ˈpɛlːe] pèłe [ˈpɛ.e~ˈpɛle];...
-
conspexit bovem, et
tacta invidia tantae magnitudinis rugosam inflavit pellem. Tum
natos suos
interrogavit an bove
esset latior. Illi negarunt. Rursus...
-
sectando vacuus et sine
oblatione pertransit,
quinimo si
munus nobile deest,
pellem aut
saltem de
veste extractum pilum in
offertorium idolo proicit et inclinando...
- much as
English refers to the "skin trade".
Lewis and
Short quote Varro:
pellem antīquī dīcēbant
scortum ('in the old days
people referred to skin as scortum')...
- stupidos, et
pectora caeca, rebellis. Et quia sic
nostram complerent crimina pellem,
Virginis in
corpus voluit demittere coelo Ipse Deus prolem, quam nunciet...
- in
Atticam pervenisset,
hospitio receptus a
Semacho filiae eius
capreae pellem largitus est;
Jerome makes this
distinction between the "true" Dionysus...
-
Subsequent to this,
stressed /ɛ/
diphthongized to /je/. Examples: Lat.
pellem > *pɛlle > Rom.
piele /pjele/ ('skin') Lat.
signum > *semnu > Rom. semn...
- (Hecatomythium)
written some time in the 1490s. This was
titled De
Cortario emente pellem Ursi a
Venatore nondum capti (How a
tanner bought a bear's skin from hunters...
