different between corpus vs corps

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??p?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??p?s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)p?s
• Hyphenation: cor?pus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse, corps, and riff.

Noun

corpus (plural corpora or corpuses or corpusses or (proscribed) corpi)

1. A collection of writings, often on a specific topic, of a specific genre, from a specific demographic or a particular author, etc.

   Synonyms: collection, compilation, aggregation; see also Thesaurus:body
2. (specifically, linguistics) Such a collection in form of an electronic database used for linguistic analyses.

   Synonyms: digital corpus, text corpus
3. (uncommon) A body, a collection.

   Synonyms: collection; see also Thesaurus:body

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• croups

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin corpus. Doublet of cos.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?k??.pus/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?k?r.pus/

Noun

corpus m (plural corpus)

1. corpus (a collection of writings)

Further reading

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

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin corpus. Doublet of corps and korps.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?r.p?s/
• Hyphenation: cor?pus

Noun

corpus n (plural corpora or corpussen, diminutive corpusje n)

1. a collection of writings, a text corpus

Usage notes

The word retained the original Latin neuter gender. It is one of the few Dutch words ending on -us that is not masculine.

Derived terms

• krantencorpus
• rechtscorpus
• tekstcorpus

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corps.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.pys/

Noun

corpus m (plural corpus)

1. (linguistics) a corpus, a body of texts

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *korpos, from Proto-Indo-European *krépos (“body”), from the root *krep-. Equivalent to the Proto-Germanic neuter noun *hrefaz (“body, torso”), whence e.g. Old High German href, Old Dutch ref, Old English hrif (> English riff).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kor.pus/, [?k?rp?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kor.pus/, [?k?rpus]
• Hyphenation: cor?pus

Noun

corpus n (genitive corporis); third declension

1. (anatomy) body, person (person when used to mean "human body", e.g., "on one's person")
   • c. 65 AD, Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Epistula XCII

     Nemo liber est qui corpori servit.

     No one is free who is a slave to the body.

2. substance, material (physical, perceptible to the senses)
3. the flesh of an animal's body
4. a corpse
5. the trunk or shaft of something
6. (figuratively) the wood under the bark of a tree
7. (Medieval) a corpus (collection of writings by a single author or addressing a certain topic)
8. (metonymically) person, individual
9. (metonymically) a frame, body, system, structure, community, corporation

Declension

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

Derived terms

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Descendants

Further reading

• corpus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• corpus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• corpus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• corpus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• corpus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• porcus, procus, spurc?

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• córpus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin corpus. Doublet of the inherited corpo.

Noun

corpus m (plural corpora or corpus)

1. (linguistics) corpus (collection of writings)

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin corpus

Noun

corpus n (plural corpusuri)

1. corpus

Declension

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin corpus, from Proto-Italic *korpos, from Proto-Indo-European *krépos ~ *krépesos, derived from the root *krep- (“body”). Compare English riff.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??.pus/, [?ko?puz?]

Noun

corpus m (plural corpos)

1. (anatomy) body (physical structure of a human or animal)

2. body (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human)

   Antonyms: ànima, ispìritu

3. body (any physical object or material thing)

4. body, corpse
5. body (organisation, company or other authoritative group)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin corpus, possibly through the intermediate of English corpus, according to the RAE. Doublet of the inherited cuerpo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ko?pus/, [?ko?.pus]

Noun

corpus m (plural corpus)

1. corpus (a collection of writings)

References

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