cutis
See also: ćutiš
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin cutis (“living skin”).
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Noun edit
cutis (plural cutes)
- (anatomy) The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
- I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […]
- 1883, Alfred Swaine Taylor, Thomas Stevenson, The principles and practice of medical jurisprudence:
- The cutis measures in thickness from a quarter of a line to a line and a half (a line is one-twelfth of an inch).
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *kutis, from Proto-Indo-European *kuH-t-, zero-grade form of *(s)kewH- (“to cover”) without s-mobile.
Cognates include Ancient Greek σκύλος (skúlos, “hide”), Welsh cwd (“scrotum”), Lithuanian kutỹs (“purse”), Old English hȳd (English hide), Old English scēo (“sky”) (English sky), German Haut (“skin”), German Hoden (“scrotum”) and Sanskrit स्कुनाति (skunā́ti, “to cover”). Related to culus.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈku.tis/, [ˈkʊt̪ɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈku.tis/, [ˈkuːt̪is]
Noun edit
cutis f (genitive cutis); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or -ī).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cutis | cutēs |
Genitive | cutis | cutium |
Dative | cutī | cutibus |
Accusative | cutem cutim |
cutēs cutīs |
Ablative | cute cutī |
cutibus |
Vocative | cutis | cutēs |
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- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cutica
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cutina
- Franco-Provençal: couèna
- Gallo-Italic
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Occitano-Romance
- West Iberian
References edit
- “cutis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cutis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cutis 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)
- cutis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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cutis m (plural cutis)
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Further reading edit
- “cutis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014