Where does “corps” come from?

Corps comes from French corps d'armée, from Latin corpus meaning "body," which referred to a unified military formation.

corps (English): A battlefield formation composed of two or more...

Definitions

  1. A battlefield formation composed of two or more...

Ancestry of “corps”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchcorps d'arméecorps
2Latincorpusbody, person; substance, material; the flesh of...
3Proto-Italickorposbody
4Proto-Indo-Europeankréposbody
5Proto-Indo-Europeankrep-body

Words derived from “corps”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European krep- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European krépos →Every word from Proto-Italic korpos →