cortex

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See also: córtex

English

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Etymology

From Latin cortex (“cork, bark”).

Pronunciation

Noun

cortex (countable and uncountable, plural cortexes or cortices)

  1. (countable, anatomy) The outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.
  2. (uncountable, botany) The tissue of a stem or root that lies inward from the epidermis, but exterior to the vascular tissue.
  3. (archaeology) The outer surface of a piece of flint.

Hyponyms

(outer layer of an animalian organ or body structure):

Coordinate terms

(botany):

Derived terms

Translations

outer layer of an internal organ or body structure

Further reading

  • “cortex”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Noun

cortex m (uncountable)

  1. cortex

Derived terms

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kort-ek-s, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kert-, extended from *(s)ker- (“to cut”).

Cognate with Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “I cut off”), English shear, German scheren, Albanian harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian skìrti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”), Old Armenian քերեմ (kʻerem, “to scrape, scratch”).

Pronunciation

Noun

cortex m or f (genitive corticis); third declension

  1. The bark of a tree; the bark of a cork tree; cork.
  2. The shell or outward part or covering of anything else; body.
  3. Life preserver (made of bark)
    • nāre sine cortice
      to need no more assistance
      (literally, “to swim without life preserver”)
      (proverb)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cortex corticēs
Genitive corticis corticum
Dative corticī corticibus
Accusative corticem corticēs
Ablative cortice corticibus
Vocative cortex corticēs

Derived terms

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References

  • “cortex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cortex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cortex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • cortex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “cortex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cortex, Latin cortex.

Noun

cortex n (plural cortexuri)

  1. cortex

Declension

Declension of cortex
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) cortex cortexul (niște) cortexuri cortexurile
genitive/dative (unui) cortex cortexului (unor) cortexuri cortexurilor
vocative cortexule cortexurilor
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