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means A dead body — a human corpse, specifically, once the person who animated it is gone.
from From Latin corpus, 'body,' which gave Old French cors and then Middle English corps/corse. The spelling grew its silent 'p' back in the 1500s-1600s as scholars re-latinized the word, and the meaning gradually narrowed from 'any body, living or dead' to specifically a dead one — the living senses drifted off to words like 'corps' and 'corpus' instead.
- legal definition
- Human body with zero remaining brain activity
- theater slang
- To corpse means breaking character laughing
- forensic timeline
- Rigor mortis fades after about 36 hours
- etymology
- From Latin corpus, simply meaning body