corpo
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Clipping of corporate + -o; or clipping of corporation + -o.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌkɔːˈpoʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌkɔɹˈpoʊ/
Noun
[edit]corpo (plural corpos) (informal, derogatory)
- A person, especially an executive, who works for or serves the interests of a big business or corporation.
- You can always spot a corpo: slick suit, fake smile, and eyes on the bottom line.
- I used to be a corpo, stuck in the rat race until I realized I was just a cog in the machine.
- A corporation.
- I worked for one of the big corpos.
- She's a corpo VTuber.
Galician
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Etymology
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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese corpo, from Latin corpus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]corpo m (plural corpos)
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “corpo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
- “corpo”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
- Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “corpo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “corpo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Santamarina, editor (2006–2013), “corpo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Santamarina, Ernesto X. González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “corpo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “corpo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Italian
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Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin corpus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrep-. Doublet of the borrowing corpus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]corpo m (plural corpi)
- body (the physical structure of a human or animal)
- body, corpse
- Synonym: cadavere
- body (any physical object or material thing)
- corpus
- corps, body, organization (group of people with a common purpose)
- (military) corps
- (printing) body (shank of a type)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “corpo”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026
Anagrams
[edit]Portuguese
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Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese corpo, from Latin corpus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrep-. Doublet of the borrowings corpus and cós.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]corpo m (plural corpos, metaphonic)
- (anatomy) body
- 1943, André Luiz, Francisco Cândido Xavier, Nosso Lar:
- — Que buscas, infeliz? Aonde vais, suicida?
Tais objurgatórias, incessantemente repetidas, perturbavam-me o coração. Infeliz, sim; mas suicida? — nunca! Essas increpações, a meu ver, não eram procedentes. Eu havia deixado o corpo físico a contragosto.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- corpse, cadaver
- Synonym: cadáver
- any limited amount of matter
- Dois corpos de cargas iguais se repelem. ― Two objects with like charges repel each other.
- corps, body, organization (group of people with a common purpose)
- Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais ― Marine Corps
- Corpo de bombeiros ― Fire department
- (military) corps
- consistency, firmness; strength [with tomar]
- Mexa a massa até tomar corpo. ― Stir the dough until it is firm.
- Os protestos populares tomaram corpo. ― The popular protests have become stronger.
- muscle mass
- Quero ganhar corpo até o fim do ano. ― I want to gain muscle before the end of the year.
- (printing) body (shank of a type)
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “corpo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “corpo”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- “corpo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
- “corpo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
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- Galician terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *krep-
- Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
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- Rhymes:Galician/oɾpo
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- gl:Anatomy
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- Rhymes:Italian/ɔrpo
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