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Aragonese
Etymology
Inherited from Latin corpus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkweɾpo/
- Rhymes: -eɾpo
- Syllabification: cuer‧po
Noun
cuerpo m (plural cuerpos)
- body
References
Old Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin corpus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrep-.
Pronunciation
Noun
cuerpo m (plural cuerpos)
- (anatomy) body
c. 1200, Almerich, w:Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 79r:[…] depues uino en roma. e alli lo fizo el cruel nero degollar. e de ſo cuerpo salio lech en logar de ſãgre.- and then he came to Rome, and there the cruel Nero had him beheaded, and from his body flowed milk instead of blood.
Descendants
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish cuerpo, from Latin corpus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrep-. Doublet of the borrowing corpus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkweɾpo/
- Rhymes: -eɾpo
- Syllabification: cuer‧po
Noun
cuerpo m (plural cuerpos)
- body (the physical structure of a human or animal)
- body, torso
- Synonyms: tronco, torso
- body, corpse
- Synonym: cadáver
- body (unified collection of information)
- body (comparative viscosity of a liquid)
- corps, body, organization (group of people with a common purpose)
- (military, law enforcement) corps, force (e.g. army corps, police force)
- (geometry) body (three-dimensional object)
- (printing) body (shank of a type)
- (algebra) field
- Synonym: campo
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