Where does “scorticare” come from?

scorticare (Italian) comes from Latin excorticāre, from Latin cortex, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kort-ek-s.

scorticare (Italian): To skin or flay

Definitions

  1. To skin or flay

Ancestry of “scorticare”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinexcorticāre—
2LatincortexThe bark of a tree; the bark of a cork tree;...
3Proto-Indo-European*(s)kort-ek-s—

Words derived from “scorticare”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kort-ek-s →Every word from Latin cortex →Every word from Latin excorticāre →