For unattestedpellex, frompelliciō +‎-s (conferillex fromilliciō), with replacement of-ex by the suffix-āx(“inclined to”) afterfallāx with a similar meaning.^[1]

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /ˈpel.laːks/,[ˈpɛlːʲäːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /ˈpel.laks/,[ˈpɛlːäks]

pellāx (genitivepellācis,adverbpellāciter);third-declension one-termination adjective

1. deceitful,deceptive

   Synonym:fallāx

   • 29BCE – 19BCE,Virgil,Aeneid2.90:

     [...] invidiā postquampellācis Ulixī
     (haud ignōta loquor) superīs concessit ab ōrīs,
     adflīctus vītam in tenebrīs lūctūque trahēbam
     et cāsum insontis mēcum indignābar amīcī.

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Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• pellācia

• “pellax”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pellax inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• pellax inGeorges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918)Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung

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