cortex
See also: córtex
English
Etymology
From Latin cortex (“cork, bark”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɔɹtɛks/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɔːtɛks/
Audio (southern England) (file)
Noun
cortex (countable and uncountable, plural cortexes or cortices)
- (countable, anatomy) The outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.
- (uncountable, botany) The tissue of a stem or root that lies inward from the epidermis, but exterior to the vascular tissue.
- (archaeology) The outer surface of a piece of flint.
Hyponyms
(outer layer of an animalian organ or body structure):
- adrenal cortex
- allocortex
- anterior cingulate cortex
- archicortex
- cerebellar cortex
- cerebral cortex
- cingulate cortex
- cytocortex
- entorhinal cortex
- isocortex
- mesocortex
- motor cortex
- neocortex
- paleocortex
- paracingulate cortex
- prefrontal cortex
- renal cortex
- somatic sensory cortex
- somatosensory cortex
- visual cortex
Coordinate terms
(botany):
- bark
- cork
Derived terms
- cortexless
- cortical
- cortico- (and its derivatives)
- subcortex
Translations
outer layer of an internal organ or body structure
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tissue of a stem or root
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Further reading
- cortex at OneLook Dictionary Search
French
Noun
cortex m (uncountable)
- cortex
Derived terms
- cortex préfrontal
Further reading
- “cortex”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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/, [ˈkɔrt̪ɛks̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkor.teks/, [ˈkɔrt̪eks]
Noun
cortex m or f (genitive corticis); third declension
- The bark of a tree; the bark of a cork tree; cork.
- The shell or outward part or covering of anything else; body.
- Life preserver (made of bark)
- nāre sine cortice
- to need no more assistance
- (literally, “to swim without life preserver”)
- (proverb)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cortex | corticēs |
| Genitive | corticis | corticum |
| Dative | corticī | corticibus |
| Accusative | corticem | corticēs |
| Ablative | cortice | corticibus |
| Vocative | cortex | corticēs |
Derived terms
- corticātus
- corticea
- corticeus
- corticōsus
- corticulus
- dēcorticō
Descendants
- Arabic: القُورْق (al-qūrq)
- Catalan: còrtex
- English: cortex
- French: cortex
- Irish: coirte
- Italian: cortice
- Portuguese: córtex, Portuguese: córtice, Portuguese: cortíceo, Portuguese: cortiço, cortiça
- Sardinian: cortiche, cortighe
- Spanish: corcho, corche, córtex
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
- cortex 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)
- cortex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “cortex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French cortex, Latin cortex.
Noun
cortex n (plural cortexuri)
- cortex
Declension
Declension of cortex
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) cortex | cortexul | (niște) cortexuri | cortexurile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) cortex | cortexului | (unor) cortexuri | cortexurilor |
| vocative | cortexule | cortexurilor | ||