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corpus
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)
- 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
- (specifically, linguistics) Such a collection in form of an electronic database used for linguistic analyses.
- Synonyms: digital corpus, text corpus
- (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- (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
- (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.
- Nemo liber est qui corpori servit.
- c. 65 AD, Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Epistula XCII
- substance, material (physical, perceptible to the senses)
- the flesh of an animal's body
- a corpse
- the trunk or shaft of something
- (figuratively) the wood under the bark of a tree
- (Medieval) a corpus (collection of writings by a single author or addressing a certain topic)
- (metonymically) person, individual
- (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)
- (linguistics) corpus (collection of writings)
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin corpus
Noun
corpus n (plural corpusuri)
- 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)
- (anatomy) body (physical structure of a human or animal)
- body (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human)
- Antonyms: ànima, ispìritu
- body (any physical object or material thing)
- body, corpse
- 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)
- corpus (a collection of writings)
References
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corpse
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)
- A dead body.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:corpse
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:corpse.
- (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)
- (intransitive, slang, of an actor) To laugh uncontrollably during a performance.
- (transitive, slang, of an actor) To cause another actor to do this.
Anagrams
- Cosper, Crespo, Pecors, copers, corpes, scoper
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