cuticula

From Latin cutīcula (“skin, cuticle”). Doublet of cuticle.

• Rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə

cuticula (plural cuticulae)

1. (zoology, botany) A tough protective covering outside the epidermis of many invertebrates and plants; cuticle.

• cuticle

Diminutive of cutis (“covering”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʊˈtiː.kʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kuˈt̪iː.ku.la]

cutīcula f (genitive cutīculae); first declension

1. skin
2. cuticle

First-declension noun.

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