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Is corium a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word corium is a Scrabble US word. The word corium is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is corium a Scrabble UK word?

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6-letter words (1 found)

CORIUM,

5-letter words (4 found)

CURIO,MICRO,MUCOR,MUCRO,

4-letter words (10 found)

COIR,CORM,COUR,CRIM,MICO,MIRO,MUIR,RIMU,ROUM,URIC,

3-letter words (17 found)

COR,CRU,CUM,CUR,MIC,MIR,MOC,MOI,MOR,MOU,ORC,OUR,RIM,ROC,ROM,RUC,RUM,

2-letter words (10 found)

IO,MI,MO,MU,OI,OM,OR,OU,UM,UR,

You can make 42 words from corium according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of corium

corium

Etymology 1

From Latin corium (“leather”).

Noun

corium (plural coriums or coria)

  1. (anatomy) The layer of skin between the epidermis and the subcutaneous tissues; the dermis.
  2. (anatomy) The deep layer of mucous membranes beneath the epithelium.
  3. (historical) Armour made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans.
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Etymology 2

core +‎ -ium. Apparently coined in 1974 by Martin Peehs, a German nuclear engineer.

Noun

corium (uncountable)

  1. (nuclear physics) A lavalike mixture of fissile material created in a nuclear reactor's core during a nuclear meltdown.
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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *korjom, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off, separate”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈko.ri.um/, [ˈkɔriʊ̃ˑ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈko.ri.um/, [ˈkɔːrium]

Noun

corium n (genitive coriī or corī); second declension

  1. skin; hide, leather
  2. leather belt, whip
  3. crust, coat, peel, shell
  4. upper layer

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

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References

  • “corium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “corium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • corium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • corium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “corium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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