Translation
corpse
Word origin
From Latin cadaver, a dead body, usually traced to cadere, 'to fall'. English keeps the same word in the medical register as cadaver, and the adjective cadaverous for a face that looks like one.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- cadaver
- English cognates
- cadaver, cadaverous
Examples
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The soldiers found a corpse on the field.
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They carried the body to the grave.
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The animal's carcass lay beside the road.
covers a dead human body and a dead animal alike, where English switches to carcass for the animal. It is the clinical word, not the euphemistic one: a funeral notice would say mortinto, and a doctor or a police report would say . The adjective kadavra describes the pallor rather than the body itself.
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