corpulent

From Middle English corpulent, from Old French corpulent, from Latin corpulentus.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːpjələnt/, /ˈkɔːpjʊlənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkoɹpjəlɪnt/

corpulent (comparative more corpulent, superlative most corpulent)

1. Large in body; fat; overweight.

   corpulent person

2. (obsolete) Physical, material, corporeal.

• In contemporary usage, "corpulent" can designate a range of bodily states, from modest plumpness to significant fatness to extreme obesity.

• See also Thesaurus:obese

• corpulence

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

Learned borrowing from Latin corpulentus.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kur.puˈlen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kor.puˈlent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [koɾ.puˈlent]

corpulent (feminine corpulenta, masculine plural corpulents, feminine plural corpulentes)

1. well-built, burly, stout, solid

• corpus
• corpulència

• “corpulent”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from Middle French corpulent, from Old French corpulent, from Latin corpulentus.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔr.pyˈlɛnt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: cor‧pu‧lent
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

corpulent (comparative corpulenter, superlative corpulentst)

1. overweight, corpulent

   Synonyms: gezet, lijvig

Inherited from Middle French corpulent, from Old French corpulent, a borrowing from Latin corpulentus.

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.py.lɑ̃/

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corpulent (feminine corpulente, masculine plural corpulents, feminine plural corpulentes)

1. corpulent, stout

• corpulence

• “corpulent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.