corse

See also: Corse and corsé

English

Etymology

From Middle English cors, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpus and corpse, and distantly of riff. Compare corset.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɔːs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɔɹs/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
• Homophones: coarse, course

Noun

corse (plural corses)

1. (obsolete) A (living) body.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     that lewd ribauld with vile lust aduaunst / Layd first his filthy hands on virgin cleene, / To spoile her daintie corse so faire and sheene […]

2. (archaic) A dead body, a corpse.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], signature C3, recto:

     [W]hat may this meane, / That thou, dead corſe, againe in compleate ſteele, / Reuiſſits thus the glimſes of the Moone, / Making night hideous, and vve fooles of nature, / So horridely to ſhake our diſpoſition, / VVith thoughts beyond the reaches of our ſoules?

   • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 214:

     Ambrosio beheld before him that once noble and majestic form, now become a corse, cold, senseless, and disgusting.

   • 1838, Thomas Eagles, Brendallah, A Poem, Whittaker & Co., section LXIII, page 112:

     'Twas then attested that he had been found / At no great distance from the bleeding corse

   • [1845], Sophocles, translated by [William Bartholomew], An Imitative Version of the Choruses and the Melo-Dramatic Dialogue, with a Synopsis of the Scenes in Sophocles’ Tragedy Antigone; […], London: Joseph Bonsor, […], page 21:

     chorus. Thine eyes will tell thee!—Yonder, see the lifeless corse. The Scene opens and discovers the corse of the Queen, her attendants weeping around it. creon. Alas! O new calamity! What more / Of ill hath Fate in store for me? Here, here / Within these arms I clasp my lifeless son: / And yonder see my wife a bleeding corse!

Derived terms

• corsepresent

 

Anagrams

• Crose, ROCEs, Secor, Sorce, ceros, cores, creos, ocres, score

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁs/

• Audio:

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Adjective

corse (plural corses)

1. Corsican

Noun

corse m (uncountable)

1. Corsican (language)

Verb

corse

1. inflection of corser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ocres, score, scoré

Italian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkor.se/
• Rhymes: -orse
• Hyphenation: cór‧se

Noun

corse f

1. plural of corsa (“race, trip”)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkor.se/
• Rhymes: -orse
• Hyphenation: cór‧se

Verb

corse

1. third-person singular past historic of correre

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkor.se/
• Rhymes: -orse
• Hyphenation: cór‧se

Participle

corse f pl

1. feminine plural of corso (“having run”)

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔr.se/
• Rhymes: -ɔrse
• Hyphenation: còr‧se

Adjective

corse

1. feminine plural of corso (“Corsican”)

Noun

corse f

1. plural of corsa (“female Corsican”)

Anagrams

• Creso, Sorce, creso, sorce

Latin

Adjective

corse

1. vocative singular masculine of corsus