From where does “rete” in retina originate?

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When we look up the word retina in the Oxford English Dictionary, we read: “a layer at the back of the eyeball that contains cells sensitive to light, which trigger nerve impulses that pass via the optic nerve to the brain, where a visual image is formed. Late Middle English: from Medieval Latin, from Latin rete ‘net’.” Retina is used as such for our sensory layer in the eye in Anglo-Saxon and some European countries, but the local word “net” appears in languages that have their own words for retina: Finnish (verkkokalvo); German (Netzhaut); Greek (αμφιβληστροειδησ χιτωνας; amfiblesteroeides chitonas ); Letvian (tiklene); Lithuanian (tinklaine); Netherlands (netvlies); Norvegian (nethinnen); Polish (siatowka); Russian (cetҷatka; cjettsjatka); Slovakian (sietnice); Swedish (näthinnan), and Tschechian (sitnice). From now on I will often refer to this “net” as rete. …