Where does “cornea” come from?
Cornea comes from Latin cornea tela, a transparent membrane of the eye named after Latin cornu meaning horn, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ḱerh₂-.
cornea (English): The transparent layer making up the outermost...
Definitions
- The transparent layer making up the outermost...
Ancestry of “cornea”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Romanian | Cornea | — |
| 2 | Romanian | -ea | A suffix forming infinitives of many verbs; Used... |
| 3 | Latin | -ella | inflection of -ellus:
## nominative/vocative... |
| 4 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 5 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -elos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
Words derived from “cornea”