Coriaceous
/ˌkɔːriˈeɪʃəs/noun
Having a leatherlike texture or quality.
Did you know?Its root goes back to Latin corium, “hide” or “leather,” the same ancient body-word family that gave us corium in anatomy and the raw, animal-skin imagery behind “coriaceous” texture.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*sker-
“to cut; to separate”
Latin
Latin
corium
“hide, leather, skin”
Late Latin
Latin
coriaceus
“made of leather; leathery”
16th Century
English
coriaceous
“leathery; having the texture of leather”
Modern English
English
coriaceous
“having a leatherlike texture or quality”