English → Latin
“peel” in Latin
cutisliving human skin; rind, surface; the appearance, outside of somethingtunicatunic, an undergarment worn by both men and women; a coating, membrane, peel; a military cloakcortexthe bark of a tree; the bark of a cork tree; cork; the shell or outward part or covering of anything else; body; life prdētrahōto draw, pull, take or drag off, down or away; remove, detach, withdraw; to take away, deprive, diminish, strip, rob; tocrustathe hard surface of a body; rind, shell, crust, bark, scab; plaster, mosaic or stucco work on a walldēpōnōto lay, set, put or place aside or away; deposit; to resign, get rid of, give up; to wager, stake, betexuōto extract, take out, draw out, pull off; to free; to take off (clothes, shoes); doff
The English word peel itself goes back to Latin plangō, through pāla.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
peel s.
cutis (thin skin of fruits): tunica (of corn and farinaceous plants): cortex (bark of trees).
peel v.
TRANS., tunicam, cutem, detrahere; desquamare. To peel a tree, corticem arbori in orbem detrahere; decorticare arborem; delibrare arborem (to take off the inner bark).
INTRANS., cutem, crustam, deponere or exuere; desquamari (Plin.); cortex ab arbore recedit (peels off).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for peel?
- The usual Latin words for “peel” are cutis, tunica, cortex; also dētrahō, crusta, dēpōnō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.