# corse
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English cors, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpus and corpse, and distantly of riff. Compare corset.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /kɔːs/
* (General American) IPA: /kɔɹs/
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
* Homophones: coarse, course

### Noun

corse (plural corses)
* (obsolete) A (living) body.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:that lewd ribauld with vile lust aduaunst / Layd first his filthy hands on virgin cleene, / To spoile her daintie corse so faire and sheene […]
* (archaic) A dead body, a corpse.
** c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], signature C3, recto:[W]hat may this meane, / That thou, dead corſe, againe in compleate ſteele, / Reuiſſits thus the glimſes of the Moone, / Making night hideous, and vve fooles of nature, / So horridely to ſhake our diſpoſition, / VVith thoughts beyond the reaches of our ſoules?
** 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 214:Ambrosio beheld before him that once noble and majestic form, now become a corse, cold, senseless, and disgusting.
** 1838, Thomas Eagles, Brendallah, A Poem, Whittaker & Co., section LXIII, page 112:'Twas then attested that he had been found / At no great distance from the bleeding corse
** [1845], Sophocles, translated by [William Bartholomew], An Imitative Version of the Choruses and the Melo-Dramatic Dialogue, with a Synopsis of the Scenes in Sophocles’ Tragedy Antigone; […], London: Joseph Bonsor, […], page 21:chorus. Thine eyes will tell thee!—Yonder, see the lifeless corse. The Scene opens and discovers the corse of the Queen, her attendants weeping around it. creon. Alas! O new calamity! What more / Of ill hath Fate in store for me? Here, here / Within these arms I clasp my lifeless son: / And yonder see my wife a bleeding corse!

#### Derived terms

* corsepresent

### Anagrams

* Crose, ROCEs, Secor, Sorce, ceros, cores, creos, ocres, score

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔʁs/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

corse (plural corses)
* Corsican

### Noun

corse m (uncountable)
* Corsican (language)

### Verb

corse
* inflection of corser:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* ocres, score, scoré

## Italian
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkor.se/
* Rhymes: -orse
* Hyphenation: cór‧se

#### Noun

corse f
* plural of corsa (“race, trip”)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkor.se/
* Rhymes: -orse
* Hyphenation: cór‧se

#### Verb

corse
* third-person singular past historic of correre

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkor.se/
* Rhymes: -orse
* Hyphenation: cór‧se

#### Participle

corse f pl
* feminine plural of corso (“having run”)

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔr.se/
* Rhymes: -ɔrse
* Hyphenation: còr‧se

#### Adjective

corse
* feminine plural of corso (“Corsican”)

#### Noun

corse f
* plural of corsa (“female Corsican”)

### Anagrams

* Creso, Sorce, creso, sorce

## Latin
### Adjective

corse
* vocative singular masculine of corsus