cutis

See also: Cutiș, cutís, and ćutiš

English

Etymology

From Latin cutis (“living skin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kjutəs/, /kjutɪs/

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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:

     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

• Beare-Stevenson cutis gyrata syndrome
• calcinosis cutis
• corrugator cutis ani
• crista cutis
• cutaneous
• cutin
• cutis hyperelastica
• cutis laxa
• cutis verticis gyrata
• cutitis
• subcutis
• sulcus cutis

 

Anagrams

• ictus, ictūs, ustic

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kutis, from Proto-Indo-European *kuH-t-, zero-grade form of *(s)kewH- (“to cover”) without s-mobile.^[1]

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈku.tis/, [ˈkʊt̪ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate 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).

	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
  • Gallo-Italic
    • Emilian: còdga, cudga
    • Ligurian: coîga, coêiga, coia
    • Lombard: codega, codga, codia; coiga (Ossolano)
    • Romagnol: còdga, codeina
    • Italian: cotechino
  • Italo-Dalmatian
    • Central Italian: cotica
    • Neapolitan: coteca
  • ⇒ Venetan: códego m
    • → Cimbrian: kódego
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cutina
  • Gallo-Italic
    • Piedmontese: cotna, cona
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: couèna
    • French: couenne
  • Italo-Dalmatian
    • Italian: cotenna
    • Neapolitan: còtena
    • Sicilian: cùtini
  • Occitano-Romance
    • Catalan: cotna, corna
    • Occitan: codena

      Gascon: cotia

      Bigorrés: corna

      Vivaro-Alpine: coena, coina

  • West Iberian
    • 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.

1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “cutis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 160

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 (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28

Anagrams

• ictus