Etymology

corium

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Latin corium
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corium · noun1

  1. Latin · borrowed fromcorium“leather”
  2. English todaycorium

From Latin corium (“leather”).

corium · noun2

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

Words from the same roots

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