Where does “adrenocortical” come from?
Adrenocortical derives from English adrenal and cortical, cortical from Latin cortex meaning bark or rind, traced through Proto-Indo-European ker-, (s)ker-, and sek- meaning to cut or separate.
adrenocortical (English): Relating to the adrenal cortex
Definitions
- Relating to the adrenal cortex
Ancestry of “adrenocortical”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | adreno- | Relating to the adrenal gland |
| 2 | English | ad- | near, at; toward, to, tendency, or addition |
| 3 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |