cortex

Senso (Inglese)

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)

Concetti

corteccia

buccia

scorza

pelle

sughero

scòrza

corteccia d’albero

guscio

🐚

sinonimi

corium

crusta

suber

Traduzioni

bark

écorce

corteza

Rinde

casca

schors

Borke

escorça

cork

Baumrinde

crosta

bast

cuirassa

crosta

Pronunciato come (IPA)

[ˈkɔr.tɛks]

Etimologia (Inglese)

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”).