cutis

See also: ćutiš

English

Etymology

From Latin cutis (“living skin”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kjutəs/, /kjutɪs/
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Noun

cutis (plural cutes)

  1. (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

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kutis, from Proto-Indo-European *kuH-t-, zero-grade form of *(s)kewH- (“to cover”) without s-mobile.[1]

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

Noun

cutis f (genitive cutis); third declension

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

Declension

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

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Aragonese: cote (Panticuto)
    • Gascon: cot, coth
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cutica
    • Gallo-Italic
      • Emilian: còdga, cudga
      • Ligurian: coîga, coêiga, coia
      • Lombard: codega, codga, codia; coiga (Ossolano)
      • Romagnol: còdga, codeina
      • Italian: cotechino
    • Italo-Dalmatian
      • Central Italian: cotica
      • Neapolitan: coteca
    • ⇒ Venetian: códego m
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cutina
    • Franco-Provençal: couèna
    • Gallo-Italic
    • Italo-Dalmatian
      • Italian: cotenna
      • Neapolitan: còtena
      • Sicilian: cùtini
    • Occitano-Romance
    • West Iberian

References
  • “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.
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “cutis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 160

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cutis.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkutis/ [ˈku.t̪is]
  • Rhymes: -utis
  • Syllabification: cu‧tis

Noun

cutis m (plural cutis)

  1. skin (especially that of the face)
    Synonym: piel

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