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Where does “corneal” come from?

Corneal comes from English cornea, from Latin cornu meaning horn, from Proto-Indo-European ḱer- and ḱerh₂-.

corneal (English): Of or pertaining to the cornea

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to the cornea

Ancestry of “corneal”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishcorneaThe transparent layer making up the outermost...
2RomanianCornea—
3Romanian-eaA suffix forming infinitives of many verbs; Used...
4Latin-ellainflection of -ellus: ## nominative/vocative...
5Latin-ellusAlternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine...
6Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
7Proto-Italic-olos—
8Proto-Italic-elos—
9Proto-Indo-European-e-lós—
10Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

Words derived from “corneal”

  • iridocorneal
  • precorneal
  • subcorneal
  • intracorneal
  • pericorneal
  • circumcorneal
  • sclerocorneal
  • noncorneal
  • corneally
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