Where does “corpora” come from?
Corpora is the plural of corpus, from Latin corpus meaning "body," which has cognates across Indo-European languages and originally referred to a physical body or material form.
corpora (English): plural of corpus
Ancestry of “corpora”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | corpus | A collection of writings, often on a specific... |
| 2 | Latin | corpus | body, person; substance, material; the flesh of... |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | korpos | body |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | krépos | body |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | krep- | body |