different between cadaver vs corps

English

Etymology

Recorded since c.1500, borrowed from Latin cad?ver.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??dæv.?(?)/, /k??d??v.?(?)/, /k??de?.v?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k??dæv?/
• Hyphenation: ca?dav?er

Noun

cadaver (plural cadavers)

1. A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:corpse, Thesaurus:body
• body
• corpse

Derived terms

• cadaveric
• cadaverine
• cadaverous
• cadaverize
• cadaverously
• cadaverousness
• cadaver dog

Related terms

• cadence

Translations

References

Latin

Etymology

From the Latin verb cad? (“I fall”), as a euphemism for dying, "the fallen one". This etymology is found as early as ca. 200 C.E. in the writings of Tertullian, who associated cadaver to cadendo : Atque adeo caro est quae morte subruitur, ut exinde a cadendo cadaver enuntietur, in English Indeed, the flesh is that which is subsumed by death, and may thereafter be termed "cadaver." (Tertullian, De Resurrectione Carnis).

A folk etymology derives cadaver syllabically from the Latin expression caro data vermibus (flesh given to worms). This etymology, more popular in Romance countries, can be traced back as early as the Schoolmen of the Middle Ages.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ka?da?.u?er/, [kä?d?ä?u??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka?da.ver/, [k??d???v?r]

Noun

cad?ver n (genitive cad?veris); third declension

1. A corpse, cadaver, carcass

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

• cad?ver?sus (seemingly dead)

Descendants

References

• cadaver in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cadaver in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cadaver in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• cadaver in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cadaver in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Tertullian. On the Resurrection of the Flesh. Chapter 18.
  Quote: “So that it is the flesh which falls by death; and accordingly it derives its name, cadaver, from cadendo.” [3]

English

Etymology 1

From French corps d'armée (literally “army body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse and corpus. See also English riff.

Pronunciation

Singular

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kô, IPA^(key): /k??/
• (General American) enPR: kôr, IPA^(key): /k??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: k?r, IPA^(key): /ko(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ko?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: core, cor; caw (non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Plural

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôz, IPA^(key): /k??z/
• (General American) enPR: kôrz, IPA^(key): /k??z/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: k?rz, IPA^(key): /ko(?)?z/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ko?z/
• Rhymes: -??(?)z
• Homophone: cores; cause, caws (non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Noun

corps (plural corps)

1. (military) A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
2. An organized group of people united by a common purpose.
   • diplomatic corps
   • White House press corps

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping.

Noun

corps

1. plural of corp

Anagrams

• S corp., crops, procs, scorp, sproc

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin corpus.

Noun

corps m (plural corps)

1. body

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French corps, from Middle French cors, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus. Doublet of corpus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?r/
• Hyphenation: corps

Noun

corps n (plural corpsen or corpora, diminutive corpsje n)

1. student society, especially a traditional and hierarchical one
2. Superseded spelling of korps.

Usage notes

Traditional student societies tend to prescribe the plural corpora, in regular language the plural corpsen is more common.

Synonyms

• studentencorps
• natie (historical)

Derived terms

• corpsbal
• corpslid
• studentencorps

French

Etymology

From Middle French cors, from Old French cors, inherited from Latin corpus (“body”), from Proto-Indo-European *?rep-. The p was added back to reflect the Latin etymology. Doublet of corpus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??/
• Homophones: cor, cors

Noun

corps m (plural corps)

1. body
2. (mathematics) field (in abstract algebra)
3. (military) corps

Derived terms

Descendants

• Karipúna Creole French: kó
• ? Danish: korps
• ? English: corps
• ? Dutch: corps, korps
• ? German: Korps
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: korps
• ? Norwegian Nynorsk: korps
• ? Swedish: kår

Further reading

• “corps” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• porcs