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corpus

Pronunciation: [ˈkɔr.pʊs]

“corpus” is a Latin word. Its 10 meanings in English:

noun

  1. body, person (person when used to mean "human body", e.g., "on one's person")
  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. the wood under the bark of a tree
  7. a corpus (collection of writings by a single author or addressing a certain topic)
  8. person, individual
  9. a frame, body, system, structure, community, corporation
  10. a physical object, a body (as in a celestial body)

In Latin

  1. Res substantialis, praesertim animalis vel hominis (et vivus et mortuus)
  2. Thesaurus librorum
  3. corpora amantum
  4. corpus omnis iuris Romani

Etymology

Inherited 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 Old High German href, Old Dutch ref, and Old English hrif (> English riff).

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