Where does “corpus” come from?

Corpus comes from Latin corpus, meaning body, which entered English through Latin and has been used in English since its adoption from Latin sources.

corpus (English): A collection of writings, often on a specific...

Definitions

  1. A collection of writings, often on a specific...

Ancestry of “corpus”, step by step

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

Words derived from “corpus

Every word from Proto-Indo-European krep-