corpulent

corpulent

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England)

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

Adjective

corpulent (comparative more corpulent, superlative most corpulent)

1. Large in body; fat; overweight.
2. (obsolete) Physical, material, corporeal.

Usage notes

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

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:obese

Related terms

• corpulence

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *krep-‎ (0 c, 11 e)

Translations

large in body; fat

Arabic: Egyptian: تخين‎ (tiḵīn), سمين‎ (samīn) Bengali: মোটা (bn) (moṭa) Chinese: Mandarin: 胖 (zh) (pàng), 肥胖 (zh) (féipàng) French: corpulent (fr) German: korpulent (de), beleibt (de) Greek: παχύσαρκος (el) (pachýsarkos) Hindi: मोटा (hi) (moṭā) Hungarian: korpulens Icelandic: feitur (is), feitlaginn Japanese: 肥満 (ja) (ひまん, himan) Latin: corpulentus, obesus Plautdietsch: forsch Polish: korpulentny (pl) Portuguese: corpulento (pt) Romanian: corpolent (ro) Russian: по́лный (ru) (pólnyj), ту́чный (ru) (túčnyj), доро́дный (ru) (doródnyj), (impolite) жи́рный (ru) (žírnyj), (impolite) то́лстый (ru) (tólstyj), корпуле́нтный (ru) (korpuléntnyj) Serbo-Croatian: корпулентно, корпулентан Roman: korpulentno, korpulentan (sh) Spanish: obeso (es) Tocharian B: kraupalñetstse Urdu: موٹا‎ (moṭā)

References

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

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Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin corpulentus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /koɾ.puˈlent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kur.puˈlen/

Adjective

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

1. well-built, burly, stout, solid

Related terms

• corpus
• corpulència

Further reading

• “corpulent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔr.pyˈlɛnt/

• Audio

  (file)

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

Adjective

corpulent (comparative corpulenter, superlative corpulentst)

1. overweight, corpulent

   Synonyms: gezet, lijvig

Inflection

Inflection of corpulent
uninflected	corpulent
inflected	corpulente
comparative	corpulenter
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		corpulent	corpulenter	het corpulentst het corpulentste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	corpulente	corpulentere	corpulentste
	n. sing.	corpulent	corpulenter	corpulentste
	plural	corpulente	corpulentere	corpulentste
definite		corpulente	corpulentere	corpulentste
partitive		corpulents	corpulenters	—

Derived terms

• corpulentheid
• corpulentie

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.py.lɑ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Adjective

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

1. corpulent, stout

Related terms

• corpulence

Further reading

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