The story
- Latin · learned borrowing fromcutīcula“cuticle, skin”
- English todaycuticle
Learned borrowing from Latin cutīcula (“cuticle, skin”). Doublet of cuticula.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
cuticle
Today it means: The strip of hardened skin at the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail. Full definition →
Latin cutīcula