cutis

English

Etymology

From Latin cutis (living skin)

Noun

cutis (plural cutes)

  1. (anatomy) The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, [], OCLC 928184292:
      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

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kuH-t-, zero-grade without s-mobile form of *(s)kewH- (to cover). Cognates include Welsh cwd (scrotum), Lithuanian kutỹs (purse) and Old English hȳd (English hide). Related to obscūrus (dark, obscure) and culus (ass).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈku.tis/, [ˈkʊ.tɪs]

Noun

cutis f (genitive cutis); third declension

  1. (anatomy) living skin
  2. rind, surface
  3. hide, leather

Inflection

Third declension i-stem.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cutis cutēs
Genitive cutis cutium
Dative cutī cutibus
Accusative cutem cutēs
Ablative cute cutibus
Vocative cutis cutēs

Descendants

(from a Vulgar Latin form *cutina:)

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cutis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈku.tis]

Noun

cutis m (plural cutis)

  1. skin (especially that of the face).

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