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

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Noun

cornea (plural corneas or corneae or (archaic) 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

Related terms

• luna cornea

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), 眼角膜 (zh) (yǎnjiǎomó)

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

  Northern Kurdish: korniye f

• Latvian: radzene f
• Maori: kiriwhatu
• Mongolian: эвэрлэг бүрхэвч (everleg bürhevch), эвэр бүрхэвч (ever bürhevch)
• 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)
• Ukrainian: рогі́вка f (rohívka)
• Vietnamese: giác mạc (vi)
• Volapük: korned (vo)
• Welsh: cornbilen f

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

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

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Latin

Adjective

cornea

1. inflection of corneus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

Adjective

corneā

1. ablative feminine singular of corneus

References

• cornea 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)

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Spanish

Verb

cornea

1. inflection of cornear:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative