The story
- Latin · borrowed fromsulcus“a furrow made by a plow”
- English todaysulcus
Borrowed from Latin sulcus (“a furrow made by a plow”). Doublet of sullow ("plough").
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
sulcus
sul·cusToday it means: A furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue, especially that marking the convolutions of the surface of the brain. Full definition →
Latin sulcus