corium

English

Etymology 1

From Latin corium (“leather”).

Noun

corium (plural coriums or coria)

1. (anatomy) The inner layer of skin, the dermis.
2. (anatomy) The deep layer of mucous membranes beneath the epithelium.
3. (historical) Armour made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans.
   • 1825, Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, Encyclopaedia of antiquities, and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval:

     Passing by the Corium Bubulum of the Classical Ancients, we see in an old charter, dated 1036, "Stallus Sutoris Vaccæ," i. e. the stall of a shoe-maker who used cow-skin.

Etymology 2

core +‎ -ium

Noun

corium (uncountable)

1. (nuclear physics) A lavalike mixture of fissile material created in a nuclear reactor's core during a nuclear meltdown.
   • Franklin Chung and L.E. Hochreiter (1991) Numerical modelling of basic heat transfer phenomena in nuclear systems, page 32: “Previous studies of the thermal behavior of corium in a degraded nuclear reactor have focussed primarily on the process of heat transfer within the corium.”
   • 2009, Wei Wei and Xin-rong Cao, "The Simulation of Corium Dispersion in Direct Containment Heating Accidents", Zero Carbon Energy Kyoto 2009.
   • 2011, C. Journeau and M. Ficsher, Nuclear Safety in Light Water Reactors: Severe Accident Phenomenology, page 569:

     As a result, dedicated core catchers have been designed that can gather the corium and cool it safely.

Translations

material from a nuclear meltdown

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.

cognates

Latin cortex, cārō, culter, Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “I cut off”), Dutch scheren, German scheren, Norwegian skjære, Swedish skära; and (from Indo-European) Albanian harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian skìrti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”), Old Armenian քերեմ (kʻerem, “to scrape, scratch”).

See also Latin secō, scindō, sciō, caedō, carpō, curtus, scalpō, sculpō, glubō, Ancient Greek γλύφω (glúphō), γράφω (gráphō), English grave.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ri.um/, [ˈkɔriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ri.um/, [ˈkɔːrium]

Noun

corium n (genitive coriī or corī); second declension

1. skin; hide, leather
2. leather belt, whip
3. crust, coat, peel, shell
4. upper layer

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	corium	coria
Genitive	coriī corī1	coriōrum
Dative	coriō	coriīs
Accusative	corium	coria
Ablative	coriō	coriīs
Vocative	corium	coria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• coriaceus
• coriāgō
• coriārius
• dēcoriō
• excoriō
• mālicorium

 

Descendants

• Albanian: kue
• Asturian: cueru
• Bourguignon: cueu
• Catalan: cuir
• English: corium
• French: cuir
• Galician: coiro
• Italian: cuoio
• Old French: cuir
  • French: cuir
• Portuguese: couro, coiro
• Spanish: cuero

References

• “corium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “corium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• corium 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)
• corium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “corium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly