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korpus

“korpus” is a Swedish word. Its 4 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a corpus; a large database of text
  2. long primer, corpus, a 10pt font pitch for body text, larger than petit (8pt), smaller than Cicero (12pt)
  3. a main part, a central part
  4. body, mass, volume

Etymology

From Latin corpus (body), used in Swedish since 1638 (in the now-obsolete sense book, volume, compendium).

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