Where does “corporation” come from?
Corporation derives from Late Latin corporatio, from Latin corporatus, the past participle of corporare meaning to form into a body, from corpus meaning body.
corporation (English): A body corporate, created by law or under...
Definitions
- A body corporate, created by law or under...
Ancestry of “corporation”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Late Latin | corporatio | assumption of a body |
| 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 |