cortexとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹtɛks/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːtɛks/

名詞

cortex (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 cortexes または cortices)

1. (countable, anatomy) The outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.
2. (uncountable, botany) The tissue of a stem or root that lies inward from the epidermis, but exterior to the vascular tissue.
3. (archaeology) The outer surface of a piece of flint.

下位語

(outer layer of an animalian organ または body structure):

等位語

(botany):

• bark
• cork

派生語

Further reading

• cortex at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

語源

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 skìrti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”), Old Armenian քերեմ (kʿerem, “to scrape, scratch”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkor.teks/, [ˈkɔrt̪ɛks̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkor.teks/, [ˈkɔrt̪eks]

名詞

cortex m or f (genitive corticis); third declension

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

   nāre sine cortice

   to need no more assistance

   (字義どおりに, “to swim without life preserver”)

   (proverb)

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

参照

• “cortex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cortex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cortex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cortex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “cortex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers