Where does “corporate” come from?
corporate (Latin) comes from Latin corporo, from Latin corpus, from Proto-Italic korpos, from Proto-Indo-European krépos, from Proto-Indo-European krep- — body.
corporate (Latin): second-person plural present active imperative of...
Definitions
- second-person plural present active imperative of...
Ancestry of “corporate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | corporo | I make into a body; I kill; I form a corporate... |
| 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 |