korpus
Pronunciation: /ˈkorpus/
“korpus” is an Estonian word. Its 8 meanings in English:
noun
- frame, (main) body, chassis (base frame of a vehicle or machine)
- body (of a human)
- a single building in a group of similar buildings
- corps (a tactical force comprising several divisions and specialised units)
- a collection of people involved in common tasks or a common vocation
- a letter grade of 10 points (height: 3.761 mm)
- corpus (a systematised online database)
- field
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin corpus (“body”). Noun sense 2 and noun sense 3 are semantic loans from Russian ко́рпус (kórpus).
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