English
corium
Corium comes from Latin corium ‘leather’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *(s)koryóm.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)koryómreconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*korjomreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcorium‘leather’
- Englishearliest quotation 1825same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)koryómreconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*korjomreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcorium‘leather’
- Englishearliest quotation 1825same form
Earliest quotation: 1825, Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, Encyclopaedia of antiquities: “Passing by the Corium Bubulum of the Classical Ancients,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- ‘to cut off, sever’
across, share, short, card, cross, cancer, screen, shirt, circle, circuit, score, crucial, curve, scare, circus, circulation, skirt, carnival, curb, scar, cancellation, scrutiny, crest, circa, shrine, shear, incarceration, shred, carnage, raffle, circulate, carcinoma, shrewd, crux, coronary, shard, carnal, scorpion, cirque, corona, 118 more
through Latin corium ‘leather’
Today it means
noun The layer of skin between the epidermis and the subcutaneous tissues.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *(s)koryóm / corium