cornée
French, noun/kɔʁ.ne/
cornée is spelled C-O-R-N-É-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 33,160th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cornée is a French feminine noun meaning “cornea” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of corné. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Partie transparente insérée dans la sclérotique de l’œil devant le cristallin”.
What does cornée mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecornea
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of corné
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Partie transparente insérée dans la sclérotique de l’œil devant le cristallin. 2. Partie distale dioptrique, plus ou moins biconvexe, de chaque ommatidie dans l'œil composé (...) dans les ocelles, partie de la cuticule transparente et dure qui forme la lentille.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cornée
- cornées plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cornée?
- /kɔʁ.ne/
- \kɔʁ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cornée
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cornée in French?
cornée appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).