corpulence

English

Alternative forms

• corpulency

Etymology

From Old French corpulence, from Latin corpulentia.

Noun

corpulence (countable and uncountable, plural corpulences)

1. The state or characteristic of being corpulent.

Synonyms

• corpulentness (obsolete)
• obesity
• pudginess

Translations

state or characteristic of being corpulent

• Bulgarian: дебелина (bg) f (debelina)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肥胖 (zh) (féipàng), 肥滿 (zh), 肥满 (zh) (féimǎn)

• French: corpulence (fr) f
• German: Korpulenz f
• Hungarian: testesség (hu), kövérség (hu), korpulencia

• Italian: corpulenza f
• Japanese: 肥満 (ja) (ひまん, himan)
• Korean: 비만 (ko) (biman) (肥滿 (ko))
• Latin: corpulentia f, adeps m or f
• Russian: ту́чность (ru) f (túčnostʹ), доро́дность (ru) f (doródnostʹ)
• Spanish: obesidad (es) f

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French

Etymology

From Latin corpulentia.

Noun

corpulence f (plural corpulences)

1. corpulence (quality of being corpulent)

Related terms

• corpulent

Further reading

• “corpulence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).