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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

Related terms

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

Alternative forms

• dictionnary (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dicti?n?rium, from Latin dicti?n?rius, from dicti? (“speaking”), from dictus, perfect past participle of d?c? (“speak”) + -?rium (“room, place”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?k??n??i/, /?d?k??n?i/, /?d?k?n??i/
• (General American, Canada) enPR: d?k'sh?-n?r-?, IPA^(key): /?d?k???n??i/
• Hyphenation: dic?tion?ary
• Rhymes: -?k??n???i

Noun

dictionary (plural dictionaries)

1. A reference work with a list of words from one or more languages, normally ordered alphabetically, explaining each word's meaning, and sometimes containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, translations, and other data.

   Synonyms: wordbook; see also Thesaurus:dictionary

2. (preceded by the) A synchronic dictionary of a standardised language held to only contain words that are properly part of the language.
3. (by extension) Any work that has a list of material organized alphabetically; e.g., biographical dictionary, encyclopedic dictionary.
4. (computing) An associative array, a data structure where each value is referenced by a particular key, analogous to words and definitions in a physical dictionary.

   Hyponym: hash table

Derived terms

Related terms

• diction

Translations

See also

• encyclopedia
• lexicon
• thesaurus
• vocabulary
• wordlist

Verb

dictionary (third-person singular simple present dictionaries, present participle dictionarying, simple past and past participle dictionaried)

1. (transitive) To look up in a dictionary.
2. (transitive) To add to a dictionary.
3. (intransitive, rare) To compile a dictionary.

Further reading

• dictionary at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• indicatory