cutis

From Latin cutis (“living skin”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkjutəs/, /ˈkjutɪs/

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cutis (plural cutes)

1. (anatomy) The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.

   Synonym: corium

   • 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).

2. (mycology) The peridium of some fungi.

• ictus, ictūs, ustic

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.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʊ.tɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkuː.t̪is]

cutis f (genitive cutis); third declension

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

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

• intercus
• recutītus

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cote, → cute
• 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
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Central Italian: cotica, ⇒ cotechino (influenced by Gallo-Italic)
    • 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

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

• “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.

Borrowed from Latin cutis.

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

cutis m (plural cutis)

1. skin (especially that of the face)

   Synonym: piel

   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 301:

     El aceite humano da gran tersura y suavidad al cutis.

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• cabello
• pelo
• uña

• “cutis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• ictus