cornea

See also: córnea and corneá

English

Illustration showing parts of the human eye, including the cornea.

Etymology

From Latin cornea tela (“horny tissue”), from cornu (“horn”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔː(ɹ)ni.ə/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)niə

Noun

cornea (plural corneas or (obsolete) corneæ)

1. (anatomy) The transparent layer making up the outermost front part of the eye, covering the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber.

Derived terms

• corneal

Translations

layer forming the front of the eye

• Arabic: قَرْنِيَّة‎ f (qarniyya)

  Egyptian Arabic: قرنية‎ f (qaraneya)

• Armenian: եղջերաթաղանթ (hy) (ełǰeratʿałantʿ)
• Bulgarian: роговица f (rogovica)
• Catalan: còrnia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 角膜 (zh) (jiǎomó)

• Czech: rohovka (cs) f
• Danish: hornhinde (da)
• Esperanto: korneo
• Finnish: sarveiskalvo (fi)
• French: cornée (fr) f
• Galician: córnea (gl) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Hornhaut (de) f
• Greek: κερατοειδής χιτώνας (el) m (keratoeidís chitónas)
• Hungarian: szaruhártya (hu)
• Italian: cornea (it) f
• Japanese: 角膜 (かくまく, kakumaku)
• Khmer: គ្រាប់ភ្នែក (kroap pnɛɛk)
• Korean: 각막 (ko) (gangmak)

• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: korniye (ku) f

• Latvian: radzene f
• Maori: kiriwhatu
• Mongolian: эвэрлэг бүрхэвч (everleg bürhevč), эвэр бүрхэвч (ever bürhevč)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hornhinne m or f

  Nynorsk: hornhinne f

• Persian: قرنیه‎ (fa) (qarniye)
• Polish: rogówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: córnea (pt)
• Romanian: cornee (ro) f
• Russian: рогови́ца (ru) f (rogovíca)
• Serbo-Croatian: kornea, rožnica (sh) f, rožnjača (sh) f
• Shan: တႃသႂ် (tǎa sǎue)
• Slovak: rohovka
• Spanish: córnea (es) f
• Swedish: hornhinna (sv) n, kornea (sv)
• Tagalog: sikwit-mata
• Thai: กระจกตา (th) (grà-jòk-dtaa)
• Turkish: kornea (tr), saydam tabaka (tr)
• Vietnamese: giác mạc (vi)
• Volapük: korned (vo)

See also

• iris
• pupil
• sclera

Anagrams

• Carone, canoer, ceroan, earcon

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Italian

Noun

cornea f (plural cornee)

1. (anatomy) cornea

Derived terms

• corneale

Adjective

cornea

1. feminine singular of corneo

Anagrams

• ancore
• canore
• careno, carenò
• carneo
• cerano, c'erano
• creano
• nocerà
• recano

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Latin

Adjective

cornea

1. nominative feminine singular of corneus
2. nominative neuter plural of corneus
3. accusative neuter plural of corneus
4. vocative feminine singular of corneus
5. nominative neuter plural of corneus

Adjective

corneā

1. ablative feminine singular of corneus

References

• cornea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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Spanish

Verb

cornea

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of cornear.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of cornear.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of cornear.