different between cutie vs cutis

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kju?ti/
• Rhymes: -u?ti

Etymology 1

cute +? -ie.

Noun

cutie (plural cuties)

1. A cute person or animal.
   • 2009, Sara Roahen, Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table (page 239)

     Before every visit, I'm convinced that the tourists will have used all the napkins, the pigeons will have roosted beneath the chairs, the sidewalk musicians will be playing classic rock, the servers will all be high school cuties […]

Usage notes

• Often used as a term of endearment.

Translations

Derived terms

• cutie pie

Etymology 2

A brand name of a particular cultivar of orange.

Noun

cutie (plural cuties)

1. A clementine: a small, waxy-peeled orange hybrid cultivar that is easy to peel by hand.
2. (by extension) Any small mandarin orange variety such as a tangerine or a satsuma.

Romanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (kutu, kut?), from Greek ????? (koutí).

Noun

cutie f (plural cutii)

1. box (rectangular container)

Declension

English

Etymology

From Latin cutis (“living skin”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kjut?s/, /kjut?s/

Noun

cutis (plural cutes)

1. (anatomy) The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.

   • I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […]

   • 1883: Alfred Swaine Taylor, Thomas Stevenson, The principles and practice of medical jurisprudence

     The cutis measures in thickness from a quarter of a line to a line and a half (a line is one-twelfth of an inch).

Synonyms

• corium

Derived terms

• cutaneous
• cutin

Anagrams

• ictus, ict?s, ustic

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kuH-t-, zero-grade without s-mobile (?link) form of *(s)kewH- (“to cover”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ?????? (skúlos, “hide”), Welsh cwd (“scrotum”), English house, hose and sky, Lithuanian kut?s (“purse”), Old English h?d (English hide), Old English sc?o (“sky”), and Sanskrit ???????? (skun??ti, “to cover”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ku.tis/, [?k?t??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ku.tis/, [?ku?t?is]

Noun

cutis f (genitive cutis); third declension

1. (anatomy) living skin
2. rind, surface
3. hide, leather

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or -?).

Derived terms

• recut?tus

Descendants

• ? Vulgar Latin: *cutica
  • Italian: cotica
• ? Vulgar Latin: *cutina
  • Catalan: cotna
  • French: couenne
  • Galician: codia, coda
  • Italian: cotenna
  • Portuguese: côdea

References

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

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cutis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kutis/, [?ku.t?is]

Noun

cutis m (plural cutis)

1. skin (especially that of the face)

   Synonym: piel

Related terms

• cutáneo

See also

• cabello
• pelo
• uña

Anagrams

• ictus