corpo

Clipping of corporate +‎ -o; or clipping of corporation +‎ -o.

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corpo (plural corpos) (informal, derogatory)

1. A person who works for or serves the interests of a big business or corporation.
2. A corporate executive.

   You can always spot a corpo — slick suit, fake smile, and eyes on the bottom line.

   I used to be a corpo, deep in the rat race until I realized I was just a cog in the machine.

3. A corporation.

   Big corpos.

   She's a corpo VTuber.

From Old Galician-Portuguese corpo, from Latin corpus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɾpo/ [ˈkoɾ.pʊ]
• Rhymes: -oɾpo
• Hyphenation: cor‧po

corpo m (plural corpos)

1. body, torso
2. corpse
3. corporation

• “corpo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “corpo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “corpo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “corpo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “corpo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “corpo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin corpus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrep-. Doublet of the borrowing corpus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔr.po/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrpo
• Hyphenation: còr‧po

corpo m (plural corpi)

1. body, corpse
2. corpus
3. (in the singular only) corps

• copro, copro-, porco

From Old Galician-Portuguese corpo, from Latin corpus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrep-. Doublet of the borrowings corpus and cós.

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• Hyphenation: cor‧po

corpo m (plural corpos, metaphonic)

1. (anatomy) body
   • 1943, André Luiz, Francisco Cândido Xavier, Nosso Lar:

     — Que buscas, infeliz? Aonde vais, suicida?
     Tais objurgatórias, incessantemente repetidas, perturbavam-me o coração. Infeliz, sim; mas suicida? — nunca! Essas increpações, a meu ver, não eram procedentes. Eu havia deixado o corpo físico a contragosto.

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2. corpse, cadaver
3. any limited amount of matter

   Dois corpos de cargas iguais se repelem. ― Two objects with like charges repel each other.

4. a group of people united by a common objective; corps

   Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais ― Marine Corps

   Corpo de bombeiros ― Fire department

5. consistency, firmness; strength [with tomar]

   Mexa a massa até tomar corpo. ― Stir the dough until it is firm.

   Os protestos populares tomaram corpo. ― The popular protests have become stronger.

6. muscle mass

   Quero ganhar corpo até o fim do ano. ― I want to gain muscle before the end of the year.

• “corpo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “corpo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025