different between corse vs corbe

English

Etymology

From Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k??s/

Noun

corse (plural corses)

1. (obsolete) A (living) body.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     that lewd ribauld with vile lust aduaunst / Layd first his filthy hands on virgin cleene, / To spoile her daintie corse so faire and sheene […]

2. (archaic) A dead body, a corpse.
   • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 214:

     Ambrosio beheld before him that once noble and majestic form, now become a corse, cold, senseless, and disgusting.

Anagrams

• Crose, ROCEs, Secor, Sorce, ceros, cores, creos, ocres, score

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??s/

Adjective

corse (plural corses)

1. Corsican

Noun

corse m (uncountable)

1. Corsican (language)

Verb

corse

1. first-person singular present indicative of corser
2. third-person singular present indicative of corser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of corser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of corser
5. second-person singular imperative of corser

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ocres, score, scoré

Italian

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /?kor.se/, [?kor?s?e]
• Hyphenation: cór?se

Noun

corse f

1. plural of corsa

Verb

corse

1. third-person singular past historic of correre

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /?k?r.se/, [?k?r?s?e]
• Hyphenation: còr?se

Adjective

corse

1. feminine plural of corso

Noun

corse f

1. plural of corsa

Anagrams

• Creso

Latin

Adjective

corse

1. vocative singular masculine of corsus

English

Etymology

Old French corbe, from Latin curvus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??(?)b/

Adjective

corbe (comparative more corbe, superlative most corbe)

1. (obsolete) crooked

   • I deeme thy braine emperished bee
     Through rusty elde, that hath rotted thee:
     Or sicker thy head veray tottie is,
     So on thy corbe shoulder it leanes amisse.

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?rbe
• Rhymes: -orbe

Noun

corbe f

1. plural of corba

Latin

Noun

corbe

1. ablative singular of corbis