corpus

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin corpus (“body”).

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈkɔːpəs/, X-SAMPA: /"kO:p@s/
• (US) IPA: /ˈkɔɹpəs/, X-SAMPA: /"kOr\p@s/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)pəs

Noun

corpus (plural corpora or corpuses)

1. the body
2. (linguistics) a collection of writings, often on a specific topic, of a specific genre, from a specific demographic, a single author etc.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:body

Derived terms

corpus callosum corpus cavernosum corpus delicti corpus linguistics corpus luteum

corpus striatum aligned parallel corpus habeas corpus monolingual corpus multilingual corpus

Related terms

• corporation
• corporeal
• corps
• corpulent

Translations

body — see body

linguistics: collection of writings

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 語料庫 (cmn), 语料库 (cmn) (yǔliàokù)

• Czech: korpus (cs) m
• Dutch: corpus (nl) n
• Finnish: korpus (fi)
• French: corpus (fr) m

• Hungarian: korpusz (hu)
• Italian: corpus (it) m
• Japanese: コーパス (ja) (kōpasu)
• Norwegian: korpus (no) m
• Swedish: korpus (sv) c, språkbank (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

• Turkish: külliyat (all works of a single author)

Anagrams

• croups

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Latin

Wikipedia ^la

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *krep- (“body”).

Noun

corpus (genitive corporis); n, third declension

1. Body, substance, material.
2. The flesh of an animal's body.
3. A lifeless body, corpse
4. The trunk or shaft of something.
5. A frame, body, system, structure, community, corporation.
6. (figuratively) The wood under the bark of a tree.
7. (Medieval) a collection of writings by a single author or addressing a certain topic

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	corpus	corpora
genitive	corporis	corporum
dative	corporī	corporibus
accusative	corpus	corpora
ablative	corpore	corporibus
vocative	corpus	corpora

Derived terms

corporālis corporascō corporeus corporicīda

corporō corporōsus corpulentus corpusculum

Related terms

corporālitās corporāliter corporātiō corporātīvus

corporātūra corporātus corpulentia

Descendants

Breton: korv Catalan: cos Danish: krop Dutch: korps English: corpse, corpus, corps Esperanto: korpo French: corps Galician: corpo

German: Körper Irish: corp Italian: corpo Portuguese: corpo Romanian: corp Russian: ко́рпус (kórpus) Spanish: cuerpo Welsh: corff