FromProto-Italic*pelnis, fromProto-Indo-European*pel-ni-s(“to cover, wrap; skin, hide; cloth”), from*pel-(“to cover, wrap; skin, hide; cloth”). Cognate withAncient Greekπέλμᾰ(pélmă,“sole of the foot”),Old Englishfell(“fell, skin, hide; garment of skin”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈpel.lis/,[ˈpɛlːʲɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈpel.lis/,[ˈpɛlːis]

pellis f (genitivepellis);third declension

1. (zootomy)pelt,fell,hide,animalskin;(poetic)human skin
2. (transferred sense)
   1. leather
   2. (clothing) agarment,article ofclothing made ofskin
   3. (military) atent forsoldiers (because it was covered withskins)
   4. aparchment
   5. (music) adrum
   6. (mycology) a thin peelable film covering theoutside of asporocarp

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• “pellis”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pellis”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pellis inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pellis”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pellis”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin