corpus

1 capital as contrasted with the income derived from it [syn: principal, principal sum]

2 a collection of writings; "he edited the Hemingway corpus"

3 the main part of an organ or other bodily structure [also: corpora (pl)]

English

Etymology

body

Pronunciation

• (UK) /ˈkɔːpəs/, /"kO:p@s/
• (US) /ˈkɔɹpəs/, /"kOr\p@s/

  Rhymes: -ɔː(r)pəs

Noun

corpus (plural: corpora or corpuses)

1. the body
2. a collection of writings, often on a specific topic, of a specific genre, from a specific demographic, a single author etc.

Derived terms

• corporation
• corporeal
• corps
• corpulent

Related terms

• corpus linguistics
• aligned parallel corpus
• monolingual corpus
• multilingual corpus

Translations

• Dutch: corpus
• Finnish: korpus
• French: corpus
• Swedish: kropp
• Turkish: külliyat (all works of a single author)

Latin

Noun

1. body

Inflection

Derived terms

• corpusculum
• corporalis
• corporo
• corporeal
• corpulent

Corpus (plural corpora) is Latin for body. It can refer to:

• Corpus Christi (disambiguation)
• Text corpus, in linguistics, a large and structured set of texts
• Corpus callosum, a structure in the brain
• Corpora cavernosa, a pair of structures in human genitals
• Hippocratic Corpus, the lectures and writings of Hippocrates
• Corpus (album), by Sebastian Santa Maria
• Corpus delicti, a legal term meaning "body of the crime."
• Corpus Delicti (band), also known simply as "Corpus"
• Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum, an index of Etruscan texts
• Corpus luteum, a temporary endocrine structure in mammals
• Corpus (sculpture), a sculpture of[Christ by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
• Corpus Reformatorum, a collection of Reformation writings
• Corpus separatum, 1947 UN Partition Plan for the Holy Land

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