different between corporal vs major

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??.p??l/, /?k??.p?.??l/
• (US) enPR: kôr'p?r-?l, kôr'pr?l, IPA^(key): /?k??.p?.?l/, /?k??.p??l/

Etymology 1

From Old French corporal (French corporel), from Latin corpor?lis, from Latin corpus (“body”); compare corporeal.

Adjective

corporal (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Having a physical, tangible body; material, corporeal.

   • Into the air; and what seem'd corporal melted as breath into the wind.

2. Of or pertaining to the body, especially the human body; bodily.

3. (zoology) Pertaining to the body (the thorax and abdomen), as distinguished from the head, limbs and wings, etc.
   • 1998, Rüdiger Riehl, Aquarium Atlas, volume 3, page 572:

     The smaller 9 9 have less elongated fins, drabber corporal colors, and more transparent fins.

Synonyms

• bodily
• corporeal

Translations

Derived terms

• corporality
• corporal punishment

Etymology 2

From French caporal, probably influenced by corporal (above), from the Italian caporale, from capo (“head, leader”) from Latin caput (“head”).

Noun

corporal (plural corporals)

1. (military) A non-commissioned officer army rank with NATO code OR-4. The rank below a sergeant but above a lance corporal and private.
2. A non-commissioned officer rank in the police force, below a sergeant but above a private or patrolman.
3. (mining, historical) A worker in charge of the wagonway, reporting to the deputy.

Synonyms

• bombardier

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From the Latin corpor?le, the neuter of corpor?lis representing the doctrine of transubstantiation in which the Eucharist becomes the body of Christ.

Noun

corporal (plural corporals)

2. (ecclesiastical) The white linen cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed; a communion cloth.

Derived terms

• corporal oath

Translations

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin corpor?lis.

Adjective

corporal (epicene, plural corporales)

1. corporal, bodily

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin corpor?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ko?.po??al/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kur.pu??al/

Adjective

corporal (masculine and feminine plural corporals)

1. corporal

   Synonym: corpori

Related terms

• cos

Noun

corporal m (plural corporals)

1. corporal (linen cloth)

Further reading

• “corporal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Etymology

From Latin corpor?lis.

Adjective

corporal m or f (plural corporais)

1. corporal, bodily

   Synonym: corpóreo

Noun

corporal m (plural corporais)

1. corporal (linen cloth)

Further reading

• “corporal” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Old French

Adjective

corporal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular corporale)

1. Alternative form of corporel

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin corpor?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku?pu??a?/

Adjective

corporal m or f (plural corporais, comparable)

1. corporal, carnal

   Synonym: corpóreo

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:corporal.

Derived terms

• corporalmente

Noun

corporal m (plural corporais)

1. corporal

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:corporal.

Further reading

• “corporal” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French corporel, from Latin corporalis.

Adjective

corporal m or n (feminine singular corporal?, masculine plural corporali, feminine and neuter plural corporale)

1. corporal

Declension

Related terms

• corporalitate

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin corpor?lis.

Adjective

corporal (plural corporales)

1. (relational) body; corporal

   Synonym: corpóreo

2. bodywide or systemic

   Synonym: corpóreo

Derived terms

Noun

corporal m (plural corporales)

1. corporal (linen cloth)

Further reading

• “corporal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Alternative forms

• majour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English major, from Latin maior, comparative of magnus (“great, large; noble, important”), from Proto-Indo-European *ma?-yes- (“greater”), comparative of *ma?-, *me?- (“great”). Compare West Frisian majoar (“major”), Dutch majoor (“major”), French majeur. Doublet of mayor.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?'j?(r)
• IPA^(key): /?me?.d??(?)/
• Rhymes: -e?d??(?)

Adjective

major (comparative more major, superlative most major)

1. (attributive):
   1. Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.
   2. Greater in number, quantity, or extent.

      Synonym: main

   3. Notable or conspicuous in effect or scope.

      Synonym: considerable

   4. Prominent or significant in size, amount, or degree.

   5. (medicine) Involving great risk, serious, life-threatening.

2. Of full legal age, having attained majority.

3. (education) Of or relating to a subject of academic study chosen as a field of specialization.
4. (music):
   1. (of a scale) Having intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees.

   2. (of an interval) Equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale, and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval.
      1. Having a major third above the root.

   3. (postpositive) (of a key) Based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect.
   4. (campanology) Bell changes rung on eight bells.
5. (Britain, dated) Indicating the elder of two brothers, appended to a surname in public schools.
6. (logic)
   1. (of a term) Occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism.
   2. (of a premise) Containing the major term in a categorical syllogism.

Antonyms

• minor

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

major (plural majors)

1. (military) A rank of officer in the army and the US air force, between captain and lieutenant colonel.
   1. An officer in charge of a section of band instruments, used with a modifier.

      Meronyms: drum major, trumpet major

2. A person of legal age.

   Antonym: minor

3. (music):
   1. Ellipsis of major key.
   2. Ellipsis of major interval.
   3. Ellipsis of major scale.
   4. (campanology) A system of change-ringing using eight bells.
4. A large, commercially successful company, especially a record label that is bigger than an indie.
5. (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The principal subject or course of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.

   Synonym: (UK) course

   1. A student at a college or university specializing on a given area of study.

6. (logic):
   1. Ellipsis of major term.
   2. Ellipsis of major premise.
7. (bridge) Ellipsis of major suit.
8. (Canadian football) A touchdown, or major score.
9. (Australian rules football) A goal.
10. (British slang, dated) An elder brother (especially at a public school).
11. (entomology) A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

major (third-person singular simple present majors, present participle majoring, simple past and past participle majored)

1. (intransitive) Used in a phrasal verb: major in.

Related terms

• majorant

Translations

References

• “major”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “major”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• Jarmo, joram

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin maior.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /m???o/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ma?d??o?/

Adjective

major (masculine and feminine plural majors)

1. larger (superlative: el major / la major—largest)
2. older (superlative: el major / la major—oldest)
3. main, principal
4. (music) major

Derived terms

• majorista
• majorment

Related terms

• majoria

Noun

major m (plural majors)

1. (military) major

Noun

major m or f (plural majors)

1. of age, adult

Further reading

• “major” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “major” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “major” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “major” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Noun

major m

1. major (military)

Declension

Further reading

• major in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• major in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Major, from Spanish, from Latin maior.

Noun

major (genitive majori, partitive majorit)

1. major (rank)

Declension

Derived terms

• kindralmajor

French

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin maior. Doublet of maire and majeur.

• (France): French military authorities created in 1972 the rank of major (non-commissioned officer), which can easily be confused with the rank of major (officer) used in many countries, creating problems when communicating with allied forces.
• (Canada): English major. From the British traditional army military rank structure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.???/

Noun

major m (plural majors)

1. (military, France) major, the upper rank of French non-commissioned officers
2. (military, Canada) major, the commissioned field officer rank

Derived terms

Coordinate terms

• capitaine de corvette (“capc”) (equivalent naval rank to the commissioned field officer rank)

Further reading

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

Hungarian

Etymology

From German [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?jor]
• Hyphenation: ma?jor
• Rhymes: -or

Noun

major (plural majorok)

1. farm

Declension

Derived terms

• majoros
• majorság

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma??or/

Adjective

major (not comparable)

1. (comparative degree of grande) bigger

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mai?.i?or/, [?mäi???r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ma.jor/, [?m?j??r]

Adjective

major (neuter majus, positive magnus); third declension

1. Alternative spelling of maior.

Inflection

Third-declension comparative adjective.

References

• major in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• major in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma.j?r/

Noun

major m pers (abbreviation mjr)

1. major (military rank)

Declension

Further reading

• major in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin maior. Doublet of maior

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ma.????/

Noun

major m (plural majores)

1. (military) major (military rank)

Romanian

Etymology

From French majeur.

Adjective

major m or n (feminine singular major?, masculine plural majori, feminine and neuter plural majore)

1. major

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Major, from Latin m?ior.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?jo?r/
• Hyphenation: ma?jor

Noun

màj?r m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. (military, Serbo-Croatian, Serbo-Croatian) major (rank)

Declension

Synonyms

• (Serbo-Croatian): bojnik
• tisu?nik

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

major c

1. a major
2. a Squadron Leader (in the British Royal Air Force)

Declension

References