different between cortex vs contex

English

Etymology

From Latin cortex (“cork, bark”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??t?ks/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??t?ks/

Noun

cortex (countable and uncountable, plural cortexes or cortices)

1. (countable, anatomy) The outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.
2. (uncountable, botany) The tissue of a stem or root that lies inward from the epidermis, but exterior to the vascular tissue.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• cortex at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Noun

cortex m (uncountable)

1. cortex

Derived terms

• cortex préfrontal

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kert-, extended from *(s)ker- (“to cut”).

Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (keír?, “I cut off”), English shear, German scheren, Albanian harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian skìrti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”), Old Armenian ????? (k?erem, “to scrape, scratch”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kor.teks/, [?k?rt??ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kor.teks/, [?k?rt??ks]

Noun

cortex m (genitive corticis); third declension

1. The bark of a tree; the bark of a cork tree; cork.
2. The shell or outward part or covering of anything else; body.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• cortex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cortex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cortex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cortex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• cortex in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

English

Etymology

From Latin contexere.

Verb

contex (third-person singular simple present contexes, present participle contexing, simple past and past participle contexed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To weave together; to form by interweaving.
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXII:

     Having examin'd also several kinds of Mushroms, I finde their texture to be somewhat of this kind, that is, to consist of an infinite company of small filaments, every way contex'd and woven together, so as to make a kind of cloth […].