corps
English
Etymology
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(deprecated template usage) From French corps d’armée (literally “army body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse and corpus. See also English riff.
Pronunciation
- Singular
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophones: core, cor; caw (non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
- Plural
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- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
- Homophone: cores; cause, caws (non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
Noun
corps (plural corps)
- (military) A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
- An organized group of people united by a common purpose.
- diplomatic corps
- White House press corps
Related terms
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Translations
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Anagrams
Bourguignon
Etymology
Noun
corps m (plural corps)
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
corps n (plural corpsen or corpora, diminutive corpsje n)
Synonyms
- studentencorps
- natie (historical)
Derived terms
French
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Etymology
From Middle French cors, from Old French cors, inherited from Latin corpus (“body”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrep-. The p was added back to reflect the Latin etymology. Doublet of corpus.
Pronunciation
Noun
corps m (plural corps)
- body
- (mathematics) field (in abstract algebra)
- (military) corps
Derived terms
Further reading
- “corps”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- English terms derived from French
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- English 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/ɔː(ɹ)
- English terms with homophones
- Rhymes:English/ɔː(ɹ)z
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English indeclinable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- en:Military
- en:Collectives
- Bourguignon terms inherited from Latin
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- Bourguignon lemmas
- Bourguignon nouns
- Bourguignon masculine nouns
- Dutch terms borrowed from French
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- Dutch nouns with plural in -en
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- nl:Education
- Visual dictionary
- French terms inherited from Middle French
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- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms inherited from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
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- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Body
- fr:Mathematics
- fr:Military