korps

Meaning

1. (neuter) a military corps
2. (neuter) a military corps
3. (neuter) an organized body of persons, notably hierarchical
4. (neuter) the thickness of a letter type

Concepts

corps

Synonyms

corps

legerkorps

Translations

Korps

سلك

Korpus

corpo

corpo

cuerpo

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɔrps/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French: corps

In summary

Borrowed from Middle French corps, from Old French corps, from Latin corpus (“body”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷrép-o-, *kʷr̥p-eH₂- (“body”). The neuter gender is after Latin corpus.