What does corpus in French mean?

What is the meaning of the word corpus in French? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use corpus in French.

The word corpus in French means body, corpus, collection, corpus delicti, body of documents, corpus of documents,, corpus luteum, habeas corpus. To learn more, please see the details below.

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Meaning of the word corpus

body, corpus, collection

nom masculin (recueil)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Il faut numériser ce corpus de données sur les virus.
We need to digitize this corpus of data on viruses.

corpus delicti

nom masculin (droit : preuve matérielle de délit)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

body of documents, corpus of documents,

nom masculin (ensemble de documents utilisés)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

corpus luteum

nom masculin (organe sécrétant la progestérone)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

habeas corpus

nom masculin (acte sur les libertés individuelles) (Law)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

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French (le français) is a Romance language. Like Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, it comes from popular Latin, once used in the Roman Empire. A French-speaking person or country can be called a "Francophone". French is the official language in 29 countries. French is the fourth most spoken native language in the European Union. French ranks third in the EU, after English and German, and is the second most widely taught language after English. The majority of the world's French-speaking population lives in Africa, with about 141 million Africans from 34 countries and territories who can speak French as a first or second language. French is the second most widely spoken language in Canada, after English, and both are official languages at the federal level. It is the first language of 9.5 million people or 29% and the second language of 2.07 million people or 6% of the entire population of Canada. In contrast to other continents, French has no popularity in Asia. Currently, no country in Asia recognizes French as an official language.