corps
English
/kɔː/, /kɔɹ/, /ko(ː)ɹ/, /koə/, /kɔːz/, /kɔɹz/, /ko(ː)ɹz/, /koəz/
noun
Definitions
- (military) A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
- An organized group of people united by a common purpose.
Etymology
Derived from French corps d'armée (army body) derived from Latin corpus (body) root from Proto-Indo-European *krep- (body).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*krep-
Gloss
body
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
身, 体
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- corper English
- corporeal English
- corporify English
- corpse English
- corpsman English
- corpsperson English
- corpswoman English
- corpulence English
- corpus English
- corpus cavernosum English
- hospital corpsman English
- midriff English
- person English
- riff English
- riffage English
- riffwise English
- riffy English
- ward English
- wardcorps English
- woman English
- Lupercī Latin
- corporalis Latin
- corporatus Latin
- corporeus Latin
- corporicida Latin
- corporo Latin
- corporālis Latin
- corpulentus Latin
- corpus Latin
- Korpus German
- korpusz Hungarian
- caporale Italian
- corpo Italian
- riff Italian
- corpus Dutch, Flemish
- corps French
- corps d'armée French
- cors French
- ко́рпус Russian
- корпус Russian
- corpus Spanish, Castilian
- cuerpo Spanish, Castilian
- πραπίς Ancient Greek
- *h₁lengʷʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *krep- Proto-Indo-European
- *krépos Proto-Indo-European
- *kr̥p-é-s, *kérp-s Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷrép-o- Proto-Indo-European
- *legʷʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱrep- Proto-Indo-European
- corpus Portuguese
- korpus Swedish
- korpus Polish
- कृपा Sanskrit
- korpus Czech
- جند Arabic
- cors Old French
- korpo Esperanto
- korpus Serbo-Croatian
- corpus Catalan, Valencian
- corp Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- گند Persian
- corff Welsh
- կերպ Old Armenian
- korpo Ido
- corp Old Irish
- körper Middle High German
- korpus Estonian
- corpo Old Portuguese
- *kriɸmos Proto-Celtic
- *korpos Proto-Italic
- corp Romansh
- cuerpu Asturian
- cuarp Friulian
- cors Old Occitan
- corpu Sicilian
- gwnd Middle Persian
- *kurpna Proto-Albanian
- gorputz Basque
- cuarp Dalmatian
- ܓܘܢܕܐ Classical Syriac
- corps Bourguignon
- kerper Vilamovian
- corpus Sardinian
- cuorpo Istriot
- cors Picard