corps

From French corps d'armée (literally “army body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse and corpus. See also English riff.

Singular

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kô, IPA^(key): /kɔː/
• (General American) enPR: kôr, IPA^(key): /kɔɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: kōr, IPA^(key): /ko(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /koə/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: core, cor; caw (non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Plural

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôz, IPA^(key): /kɔːz/
• (General American) enPR: kôrz, IPA^(key): /kɔɹz/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: kōrz, IPA^(key): /ko(ː)ɹz/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /koəz/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
• Homophone: cores; cause, caws (non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

corps (plural corps)

1. (military) A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
2. An organized group of people united by a common purpose.
   • diplomatic corps
   • White House press corps

• S corp., crops, procs, sproc

From Latin corpus.

corps m (plural corps)

1. body

Borrowed from French corps.

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corps n (plural corpsen or corpora, diminutive corpsje n)

1. Alternative spelling of korps
2. student society, especially a traditional and hierarchical one

• studentencorps
• natie (historical)

• corpsbal
• studentencorps

From Middle French cors, from Old French cors, inherited from Latin corpus (“body”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrep-. The p was added back to reflect the Latin etymology. Doublet of corpus.

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ/

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corps m (plural corps)

1. body
2. (mathematics) field (in abstract algebra)
3. (military) corps

• corporation
• corporel
• corser
• corset
• incorporer

• “corps” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• porcs