different between corpse vs cadaveric

English

Alternative forms

• corse (obsolete)

Etymology

From earlier corse, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”). Displaced native Old English l?? (whence modern English word lich). The ?p? was inserted due to the original Latin spelling. Doublet of corps and corpus. The verb sense derives from the notion of being unable to control laughter while playing a dead body.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??ps/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??ps/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?ko?ps/
• Rhymes: -??(?)ps

Noun

corpse (plural corpses)

1. A dead body.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:corpse

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:corpse.
2. (archaic, sometimes derogatory) A human body in general, whether living or dead.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:body

Related terms

Translations

Verb

corpse (third-person singular simple present corpses, present participle corpsing, simple past and past participle corpsed)

1. (intransitive, slang, of an actor) To laugh uncontrollably during a performance.
2. (transitive, slang, of an actor) To cause another actor to do this.

Anagrams

• Cosper, Crespo, Pecors, copers, corpes, scoper

English

Etymology

From French cadavérique.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kad??v???k/, /k??dav???k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k??dav???k/

Adjective

cadaveric (comparative more cadaveric, superlative most cadaveric)

1. Pertaining to a corpse.
   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 157:

     Hodgkin had just returned from his second visit to Paris, where he had learned to prepare and dissect cadaveric specimens.

2. Caused by coming into contact with a dead body, a cadaver.
   • 1969, Philip Ziegler, The Black Death, Folio Society 2007, p. 21:

     He invoked cadaveric poisoning as the reason for the high death rate among priests and monks […]

Derived terms

• cadaveric alkaloid

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French cadavérique.

Adjective

cadaveric m or n (feminine singular cadaveric?, masculine plural cadaverici, feminine and neuter plural cadaverice)

1. cadaveric

Declension