cortex

See also: córtex

English

Etymology

From Latin cortex (“cork”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹtɛks/

Noun

cortex (countable and uncountable, plural cortexes or cortices)

1. (countable, anatomy) The outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.
2. (uncountable, botany) The tissue of a stem or root that lies inward from the epidermis, but exterior to the vascular tissue.

Derived terms

• cortical
• cerebral cortex
• prefrontal cortex
• renal cortex

Translations

outer layer of an internal organ or body structure

• Bulgarian: ципа (bg) f (cipa)
• Catalan: còrtex (ca) m
• Czech: kůra (cs) f
• Finnish: kuori (fi)
• French: cortex (fr) m
• Greek: φλοιός (el) (floiós)
• Hungarian: kéreg (hu)

• Ido: kortico (io)
• Irish: coirtéis f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bark (no) m

  Nynorsk: bork (nn) m

• Russian: кора (ru) (kora)

tissue of a stem or root

• Bulgarian: кора (bg) f (kora)
• French: cortex (fr) m
• Hungarian: kéreg (hu)

• Latin: cortex
• Polish: kora (pl) f
• Tagalog: luknap

Further reading

• cortex at OneLook Dictionary Search

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French

Noun

cortex m (uncountable)

1. cortex

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kert-, extended from *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Cognate with Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “I cut off”), English shear, German scheren, Albanian harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian skìrti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”), Old Armenian քերեմ (kʿerem, “to scrape, scratch”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkor.teks/, [ˈkɔr.tɛks]

Noun

cortex m (genitive corticis); third declension

1. The bark of a tree; the bark of a cork tree; cork.
2. The shell or outward part or covering of anything else; body.

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	cortex	corticēs
genitive	corticis	corticum
dative	corticī	corticibus
accusative	corticem	corticēs
ablative	cortice	corticibus
vocative	cortex	corticēs

Derived terms

• corticātus
• corticeus
• corticōsus

• corticulus
• dēcorticō

Descendants

• Arabic: qurq
• English: cortex, cortical, decorticate
• French: cortex

• Italian: cortice
• Portuguese: córtice
• Spanish: corcho, corche, cortical

References

• cortex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cortex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “cortex”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “cortex” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• cortex in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers