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Is cortex a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word cortex is a Scrabble US word. The word cortex is worth 15 points in Scrabble:

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Is cortex a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word cortex is a Scrabble UK word and has 15 points:

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Yes. The word cortex is a Words With Friends word. The word cortex is worth 16 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

CORTEX,

5-letter words (3 found)

OXTER,RECTO,RETOX,

4-letter words (8 found)

CERO,CERT,CORE,COTE,OXER,ROTE,TORC,TORE,

3-letter words (20 found)

COR,COT,COX,ECO,EXO,ORC,ORE,ORT,REC,REO,RET,REX,ROC,ROE,ROT,TEC,TEX,TOC,TOE,TOR,

2-letter words (9 found)

ER,ET,EX,OE,OR,OX,RE,TE,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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

Definitions and meaning of cortex

cortex

Etymology

From Latin cortex (“cork, bark”).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɔɹtɛks/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɔːtɛks/

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.
  3. (archaeology) The outer surface of a piece of flint.

Hyponyms

(outer layer of an animalian organ or body structure):

Coordinate terms

(botany):

  • bark
  • cork

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

  • “cortex”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Noun

cortex m (uncountable)

  1. cortex

Derived terms

  • cortex préfrontal

Further reading

  • “cortex”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

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

Cognate with Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “I cut off”), English shear, German scheren, Albanian harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian skìrti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”), Old Armenian քերեմ (kʻerem, “to scrape, scratch”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkor.teks/, [ˈkɔrt̪ɛks̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkor.teks/, [ˈkɔrt̪eks]

Noun

cortex m or f (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.
  3. Life preserver (made of bark)

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cortex, Latin cortex.

Noun

cortex n (plural cortexuri)

  1. cortex

Declension


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