Where does “cortex” come from?
cortex (Romanian) comes from French cortex, from Latin cortex, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kort-ek-s.
Ancestry of “cortex”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | cortex | cortex |
| 2 | Latin | cortex | The bark of a tree; the bark of a cork tree;... |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | *(s)kort-ek-s | — |