corpus

corpus

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse, corps, and riff.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɔːpəs/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɔɹpəs/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)pəs
  • Hyphenation: cor‧pus

Noun

corpus (plural corpora or corpuses or corpusses or (proscribed) corpi)

  1. A collection of writings, often on a specific topic, of a specific genre, from a specific demographic or a particular author, etc.
    Synonyms: collection, compilation, aggregation; see also Thesaurus:body
  2. (specifically, linguistics) Such a collection in form of an electronic database used for linguistic analyses.
    Synonyms: digital corpus, text corpus
  3. (uncommon) A body, a collection.
    Synonyms: collection; see also Thesaurus:body

Usage notes

  • Of the plurals, corpora is the only common one.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

  • Wiktionary:Corpora

See also

References

Further reading

  • corpus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “corpus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • “corpus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  • “corpus”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  • “corpus”, in Collins English Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • croups

Basque

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin corpus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /korpus̺/ [kor.pus̺]
  • Rhymes: -orpus̺
  • Hyphenation: cor‧pus

Noun

corpus inan

  1. corpus (a collection of writings)

Declension

Further reading

  • “corpus”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin corpus. Doublet of cos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkɔr.pus]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈkɔɾ.pus]

Noun

corpus m (invariable)

  1. corpus (a collection of writings)

Further reading

  • “corpus” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin corpus. Doublet of corps and korps.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔr.pʏs/
  • Hyphenation: cor‧pus

Noun

corpus n (plural corpora or corpussen, diminutive corpusje n)

  1. a collection of writings, a text corpus

Usage notes

The word retained the original Latin neuter gender. It is one of the few Dutch words ending on -us that is not masculine.

Derived terms

  • krantencorpus
  • rechtscorpus
  • tekstcorpus

Further reading

  • “corpus” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corps.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔʁ.pys/

Noun

corpus m (plural corpus)

  1. (linguistics) a corpus, a body of texts

Further reading

  • “corpus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

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 e.g. Old High German href, Old Dutch ref, Old English hrif (> English riff).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkor.pus/, [ˈkɔrpʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkor.pus/, [ˈkɔrpus]
  • Hyphenation: cor‧pus

Noun

corpus n (genitive corporis); third declension

  1. (anatomy) body, person (person when used to mean "human body", e.g., "on one's person")
    • c. 65 AD, Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Epistula XCII
      Nemo liber est qui corpori servit.
      No one is free who is a slave to the body.
  2. substance, material (physical, perceptible to the senses)
    Synonym: rēs
  3. the flesh of an animal's body
  4. a corpse
    Synonyms: cadāver, mors, fūnus, caedēs
  5. the trunk or shaft of something
  6. (figuratively) the wood under the bark of a tree
  7. (Medieval Latin) a corpus (collection of writings by a single author or addressing a certain topic)
  8. (metonymically) person, individual
  9. (metonymically) a frame, body, system, structure, community, corporation

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

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Descendants

Further reading

  • “corpus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “corpus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • corpus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • corpus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “corpus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Anagrams

  • porcus, procus, spurcō

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • córpus

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin corpus. Doublet of corpo and cós.

Pronunciation

Noun

corpus m (plural corpora or corpus)

  1. (linguistics) corpus (collection of writings)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin corpus. Doublet of corp.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkor.pus/

Noun

corpus n (plural corpusuri)

  1. corpus

Declension

Further reading

  • corpus in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin corpus, from Proto-Italic *korpos, from Proto-Indo-European *krépos ~ *krépesos, derived from the root *krep- (“body”). Compare English riff.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkorpus/, [ˈkor.pu.zŭ]

Noun

corpus m (plural corpos)

  1. (anatomy) body (physical structure of a human or animal)
    tènnere unu corpus atlèticu ― to have an athletic body
  2. body (fleshly or corporeal nature of a human)
    Antonyms: ànima, ispìritu
    sos disìgios de su corpus ― the body's desires
  3. body (any physical object or material thing)
    Cale si siat corpus est sugetu a sa fortza de gravidade ― Any body is subject to gravitational force
  4. body, corpse
  5. body (organisation, company or other authoritative group)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin corpus, possibly through the intermediate of English corpus, according to the RAE. Doublet of the inherited cuerpo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkoɾpus/ [ˈkoɾ.pus]
  • Rhymes: -oɾpus
  • Syllabification: cor‧pus

Noun

corpus m (plural corpus)

  1. corpus (a collection of writings)

References

Further reading

  • “corpus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

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