Corpus (plural ''corpora'') is

Latin Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...

for "body". It may refer to:

Linguistics

Text corpus In linguistics and natural language processing, a corpus (: corpora) or text corpus is a dataset, consisting of natively digital and older, digitalized, language resources, either annotated or unannotated. Annotated, they have been used in corp ...

, in linguistics, a large and structured set of texts * Speech corpus, in linguistics, a large set of speech audio files *

Corpus linguistics Corpus linguistics is an empirical method for the study of language by way of a text corpus (plural ''corpora''). Corpora are balanced, often stratified collections of authentic, "real world", text of speech or writing that aim to represent a giv ...

, a branch of linguistics

Music

* ''Corpus'' (album), by Sebastian Santa Maria * Corpus Delicti (band), also known simply as Corpus

Medicine

Corpus callosum The corpus callosum (Latin for "tough body"), also callosal commissure, is a wide, thick nerve tract, consisting of a flat bundle of commissural fibers, beneath the cerebral cortex in the brain. The corpus callosum is only found in placental ...

, a structure in the brain *

Corpus cavernosum (disambiguation) Corpus cavernosum may refer to: * Corpus cavernosum clitoridis * Corpus cavernosum penis * "Corpus cavernosum urethrae" was used in older texts for corpus spongiosum. {{Disambig ...

, a pair of structures in human genitals *

Corpus luteum The corpus luteum (Latin for "yellow body"; : corpora lutea) is a temporary endocrine structure in female ovaries involved in the production of relatively high levels of progesterone, and moderate levels of estradiol, and inhibin A. It is the ...

, a temporary endocrine structure in mammals * Corpus gastricum, the Latin term referring to the body of the stomach * Corpus alienum, a foreign object originating outside the body *

Corpus albicans The corpus albicans (Latin for "whitening body"; also known as atretic corpus luteum, corpus candicans, or simply as albicans) is the regressed form of the corpus luteum. As the corpus luteum is being broken down by macrophages, fibroblasts lay d ...

* Corpora amylacea * Corpora arenacea

Surname

* Victor Corpus (1944–2024), Filipino military officer and public official

Other uses

* ''Corpus'' (Bernini), a 1650 sculpture of Christ by Gian Lorenzo Bernini * Corpus (museum), a human body themed museum in the Netherlands *

Corpus Clock The Corpus Clock, also known as the Grasshopper clock, is a large sculptural clock at street level on the outside of the Taylor Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdo ...

, a large sculptural clock *

Corpus (dance troupe) Corpus is a Canadian dance company whose work often combines humour with dance. Besides major productions, they often perform in schools, and are co-creators of the Treehouse TV series 4 Square. They have performed thousands of shows internatio ...

, a Canadian dance troupe * Corpus (typography), another name for long primer-size type * Corpus, the figure of Christ on a crucifix * Corpus, the colloquial term mostly used for

Corpus Christi, Texas Corpus Christi ( ; ) is a Gulf Coast of the United States, coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat and largest city of Nueces County, Texas, Nueces County with portions extending into Aransas County, T ...

* Corpus fund, the capital generated for the continued sustenance of an organization * Corpus, total amount of money invested by all investors in a

mutual fund A mutual fund is an investment fund that pools money from many investors to purchase Security (finance), securities. The term is typically used in the United States, Canada, and India, while similar structures across the globe include the SICAV in ...

scheme * The Corpus, a faction in the online game '' Warframe'', organized as a cult that worships profit * CORPUS, a dissident Catholic organisation *

Enron Corpus The Enron Corpus is a database of over 600,000 emails generated by 158 employees of the Enron Corporation in the years leading up to the company's collapse in December 2001. The corpus was generated from Enron email servers by the Federal Energy ...

, a database of emails from the disgraced American energy company Enron

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