cortex

Significat (Anglès)

1. (declension-3, feminine, masculine) The bark of a tree; the bark of a cork tree; cork.
2. (declension-3, feminine, masculine) The shell or outward part or covering of anything else; body.
3. (declension-3, feminine, masculine) Life preserver (made of bark)

Conceptes

escorça

clofolla

closca

crosta

cuirassa

carcassa

suro

tap de suro

pela

Sinònims

corium

crusta

suber

Traduccions

bark

écorce

corteccia

corteza

Rinde

casca

schors

Borke

cork

Baumrinde

buccia

crosta

scorza

bast

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

[ˈkɔr.tɛks]

Etimologia (Anglès)

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kort-ek-s, 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 ski̇̀rti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”), Old Armenian քերեմ (kʻerem, “to scrape, scratch”). See also scortum (“skin, hide”).