Where does “corpo” come from?
corpo (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese corpo, from Latin corpus, from Proto-Italic korpos, from Proto-Indo-European krépos, from Proto-Indo-European krep- — body.
corpo (Galician): body; corporation
Ancestry of “corpo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old Portuguese | corpo | — |
| 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 |