corps

From French corps d’armée (literally “army body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse and corpus. See also English riff.

singular

• (horse–hoarse merger)
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kô, IPA^(key): /kɔː/
  • (General American) enPR: kôr, IPA^(key): /koɹ/, [kʰo̞ɹ]

    Audio (US):

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  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
  • Homophones: core, cor; caw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
• (without the horse–hoarse merger)
  • (rhotic) enPR: kōr, IPA^(key): /ko(ː)ɹ/
  • (non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /koə/

plural

• (horse–hoarse merger)
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôz, IPA^(key): /kɔːz/
  • (General American) enPR: kôrz, IPA^(key): /koɹz/, [kʰo̞ɹz]
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
  • Homophones: cores; cause, caws (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
• (without the horse–hoarse merger)
  • (rhotic) enPR: kōrz, IPA^(key): /ko(ː)ɹz/
  • (non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /koəz/

corps (plural corps)

1. (military) A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
2. An organized group of people united by a common purpose.

   diplomatic corps

   White House press corps

corps (plural corps)

1. A corps de ballet.
   • 1981 December 12, David Foushee, “Pushing the Edges”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 6:

     The performers were all creditable dancers as well as comedians […] even the largest of them cavorted about en pointe with wonderful ease, and the corps work was extremely precise in its inaccuracies.

Clipping.

corps

1. plural of corp

corps (plural corpses)

1. Obsolete spelling of corpse.
   • 1658, Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk […], London: […] Hen. Brome […], page 16:

     How to keep the corps ſeven dayes from corruption by anointing and waſhing, without exenteration, were an hazardable peece of art, in our choiſeſt practiſe.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 597–601:

     To mee, who with eternal Famin pine, / Alike is Hell, or Paradiſe, or Heaven, / There beſt, where moſt with ravin I may meet; / Which here, though plenteous, all too little ſeems / To ſtuff this Maw, this vaſt unhide-bound Corps.

   • 1788, [Vicesimus Knox], Winter Evenings: or, Lucubrations on Life and Letters, volume II, Dublin: […] Messrs. Chamberlaine, Moncrieffe, White, […], page 70:

     Did I poſſeſs the power of reſuſcitation, I would reanimate thy lifeleſs corps, and cheriſh thee in the warmeſt corner of thy favourite dwelling-place.

   • 1818, John Palmer, Journal of Travels in the United States of North America, and in Lower Canada, Performed in the Year 1817: […], London: […] Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], page 92:

     The women looked like dead bodies; and never did I see such a sepulchral appearance as their dress and colourless faces exhibited, they were all dressed alike in drab gowns, white neck kerchiefs, and a cap fitting close over their ears, and fastened under the chin, the same sort as are placed on a corps.

• S corp., crops, procs, scorp, sproc

From Latin corpus.

corps m (plural corps)

1. body

Borrowed from French corps, from Middle French cors, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus. Doublet of corpus.

• IPA^(key): /koːr/

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• Hyphenation: corps

corps n (plural corpsen or corpora, diminutive corpsje n)

1. (chiefly Netherlands) student society, especially a traditional and hierarchical one
2. Superseded spelling of korps.

Traditional student societies tend to prescribe the plural corpora, in regular language the plural corpsen is more common.

• studentencorps
• natie (historical)
• studentenclub
• studentenvereniging

• corpsbal
• corpslid
• studentencorps

Picture dictionary
1= tête 2= visage 3= cou 4= épaule 5= poitrine, sein 6= nombril 7= ventre 8= aine 9= pénis 10-12= jambe 10= cuisse 11= genou 12= mollet 13= cheville 14= pied 15-18= bras 16= coude 17= avant-bras 18= poignet 19= main

Inherited from Middle French cors, from Old French cors, inherited from Latin corpus (“body”). The p was added back to reflect the Latin etymology. Doublet of corpus.

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ/

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• Homophones: cor, cors

corps m (plural corps)

1. body
2. (mathematics) field (in abstract algebra)
3. (military) corps

• Karipúna Creole French: kó
• → Danish: korps
• → English: corps
• → Dutch: corps, korps
• → German: Korps
• → Norwegian Bokmål: korps
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: korps
• → Romanian: corp (in part)
• → Swedish: kår

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

• porcs