Where does “corporately” come from?
Corporate comes from Latin corporatus, the past participle of corporare meaning to form into a body, from corpus meaning body.
corporately (English): Acting as a corporate body; In a corporate way
Definitions
- Acting as a corporate body; In a corporate way
Ancestry of “corporately”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | corporate | Of or relating to a corporation; Formed into a... |
| 2 | Latin | corporatus | A member of a corporation; corporate |
| 3 | Latin | corporare | present active infinitive of corporō;... |
| 4 | Latin | corpus | body, person; substance, material; the flesh of... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | korpos | body |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | krépos | body |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | krep- | body |