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
cornea traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian Cornea
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via Latin cornea tela
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | cornea tela | horny tissue |
| 2 | Latin | cornu | a horn, antler; a tusk; the horns of the moon |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |