# corps
## English
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

    singular
* (horse–hoarse merger)
** (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kô, IPA: /kɔː/
** (General American) enPR: kôr, IPA: /koɹ/, [kʰo̞ɹ]
    Audio (US):(file)
** Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
** Homophones: core, cor; caw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
* (without the horse–hoarse merger)
** (rhotic) enPR: kōr, IPA: /ko(ː)ɹ/
** (non-rhotic) IPA: /koə/
    plural
* (horse–hoarse merger)
** (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôz, IPA: /kɔːz/
** (General American) enPR: kôrz, IPA: /koɹz/, [kʰo̞ɹz]
** Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
** Homophones: cores; cause, caws (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
* (without the horse–hoarse merger)
** (rhotic) enPR: kōrz, IPA: /ko(ː)ɹz/
** (non-rhotic) IPA: /koəz/

#### Noun

corps (plural corps)
* (military) A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
* An organized group of people united by a common purpose.
    diplomatic corps
    White House press corps

##### Derived terms

* avant-corps
* corper
* corps-a-corps
* corps de logis
* corpsman
* corpsperson
* corpswoman
* diplomatic corps
* free corps
* juste-au-corps
* marine corps
* press corps
* staff corps

##### Translations
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

corps (plural corps)
* 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.

### Etymology 3

Clipping.

#### Noun

corps
* plural of corp

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

corps (plural corpses)
* 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.

### Anagrams

* S corp., crops, procs, scorp, sproc

## Bourguignon
### Etymology

From Latin corpus.

### Noun

corps m (plural corps)
* body

## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koːr/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: corps

### Noun

corps n (plural corpsen or corpora, diminutive corpsje n)
* (chiefly Netherlands) student society, especially a traditional and hierarchical one
* Superseded spelling of korps.

#### Usage notes

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

#### Synonyms

* studentencorps
* natie (historical)
* studentenclub
* studentenvereniging

#### Derived terms

* corpsbal
* corpslid
* studentencorps

## French

Picture dictionary :
corps :
* 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

### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔʁ/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: cor, cors

### Noun

corps m (plural corps)
* body
* (mathematics) field (in abstract algebra)
* (military) corps

#### Derived terms

* à bras-le-corps
* à corps perdu
* à son corps défendant
* avoir le diable au corps
* chevillé au corps
* corporation
* corporel
* corps calleux
* corps caverneux
* corps céleste
* corps composé
* corps consulaire
* corps de ballet
* corps de garde
* corps de métier
* corps diplomatique
* corps du délit
* corps et âme
* corps et biens
* corps étranger
* corps simple
* corser
* corset
* donner corps
* esprit de corps
* faire corps
* garde du corps
* incorporer
* linge de corps
* maillot de corps
* pleurer toutes les larmes de son corps
* prendre corps
* tenir au corps
* tricot de corps
* vendre son corps

#### Descendants

* 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

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* porcs