cutis

cutis

See also: ćutiš

English

Etymology

From Latin cutis (“living skin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kjutəs/, /kjutɪs/

Noun

cutis (plural cutes)

1. (anatomy) The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:

     I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […]

   • 1883: Alfred Swaine Taylor, Thomas Stevenson, The principles and practice of medical jurisprudence

     The cutis measures in thickness from a quarter of a line to a line and a half (a line is one-twelfth of an inch).

Synonyms

• corium

Derived terms

• calcinosis cutis
• corrugator cutis ani
• cutaneous
• cutin
• cutis hyperelastica
• cutis laxa

 

Anagrams

• ictus, ictūs, ustic

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kutis, from Proto-Indo-European *kuH-t-, zero-grade form of *(s)kewH- (“to cover”) without s-mobile.

Cognates include Ancient Greek σκύλος (skúlos, “hide”), Welsh cwd (“scrotum”), Lithuanian kutỹs (“purse”), Old English hȳd (English hide), Old English scēo (“sky”) (English sky), and Sanskrit स्कुनाति (skunā́ti, “to cover”). Related to culus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.tis/, [ˈkʊt̪ɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.tis/, [ˈkuːt̪is]

Noun

cutis f (genitive cutis); third declension

1. (anatomy) living skin
2. rind, surface
3. hide, leather

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or -ī).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cutis	cutēs
Genitive	cutis	cutium
Dative	cutī	cutibus
Accusative	cutem cutim	cutēs cutīs
Ablative	cute cutī	cutibus
Vocative	cutis	cutēs

Derived terms

• intercus
• recutītus

Descendants

• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: cote (Panticuto)
  • Gascon: cot, coth
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cutica
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: cotica (central italian dialects)
    • Neapolitan: coteca
  • Padanian:
    • Emilian: còdga, cudga
    • Ligurian: coîga, coêiga, coia
    • Lombard: codega, codga, codia; coiga (Ossolano)
    • Romagnol: còdga, codeina
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cutina
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: cotenna
    • Neapolitan: còtena
    • Sicilian: cùtini
  • Padanian:
    • Piedmontese: cotna
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: couèna
    • French: couenne
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: cotna
    • Occitan: codena

      Gascon: cotia

      Bigorrés: corna

      Vivaro-Alpine: coena, coina

  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Galician: codia, coda
    • Portuguese: côdea

References

• “cutis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cutis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cutis 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)
• cutis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cutis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkutis/ [ˈku.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -utis
• Syllabification: cu‧tis

Noun

cutis m (plural cutis)

1. skin (especially that of the face)

   Synonym: piel

Related terms

• cutáneo

See also

• cabello
• pelo
• uña

Further reading

• “cutis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

• ictus