cutis

Etymology

From Latin cutis (“living skin”)

Noun

cutis (plural cutes)

1. (anatomy) The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, London: A[ndrew] Millar, OCLC 928184292:

     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).

Anagrams

• ictus, ictūs, ustic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kuH-t-, zero-grade without s-mobile form of *(s)kewH- (“to cover”). Cognates include Welsh cwd (“scrotum”), Lithuanian kutỹs (“purse”) and Old English hȳd (English hide). Related to obscūrus (“dark, obscure”) and culus (“ass”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.tis/, [ˈkʊ.tɪs]

Noun

cutis f (genitive cutis); third declension

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

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, 1883–1887)
• cutis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cutis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈku.tis]

Noun

cutis m (plural cutis)

1. skin (especially that of the face).

See also

• cabello
• pelo
• uña

Anagrams

• ictus