English → Latin
“corporal” in Latin
decuriōdecurion; foremancorporālisbodily, physical; corporeal; concretecorporeusOf or belonging to a body; corporeal; Of or relating to the body; bodily.; Composed of flesh; fleshy.vitiumflaw, defect, blemish, imperfection; vice; crime, wrongdoing, misdeed, sin, error, faultnātūrathe nature, quality, substance or essence of a thing; character, temperament, inclination, disposition; nature, the natuvōxvoice; accent; speech, remark, expression, (turn of) phrase
The English word corporal itself goes back to Latin corpus, through corporāle.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
corporal
decurio.
corporal
corporalis (Sen.; but only as a philosophical technical term; opposed to incorporalis). It may be translated by genetive corporis. Corporal pain, dolor corporis.
corporal
corporalis (post-Augustan, belonging to the body; e.g., vitia, Sen., Ep., 53): corporeus (e.g., coiporeum - omne necesse est esse quod datum est, Cic.; corporea res, natura, vox, Lucr., Corporeus = that of which the substance is a body: corporalis, that of which the nature and qualities are those of a body): in corpore situs: but ☞ the genitive corporis is the usual term; e.g., a corporal blemish, etc., corporis vitium; but also corporale vitium (Sen., Ep., 53): corporal pains, corporis dolores (Cic.). Sometimes corpus may be used [Vid: CORPOREAL].
Corporal punishment, fustium admonitio: flagellorum castigatio (both in Callistratus, Dig., 48, 19, 7): verbera, plur., (this is mostly the best substantive.) Often by circumlocution: to inflict corporal punishment, verberibus coercere (Cic., 3, Leg., 3); verberibus castigare; verbera afferre alicui (Liv.). To inflict corporal punishment on citizens, verberibus animadvertere in cives (of the infliction by a magistrate, Sall., Cat., 51).
Corporal oath (= solemn oath, confirmed by touching the “corporal,” or cloth that covers the consecrated elements), *jusjurandum quasi deo teste juratum (after Cic.’s definitions of an oath, affirmatio religiosa; affirmate, quasi deo teste, promittere): jusjurandum sanctum. To take a corporal oath, sancte jurare, or sancte, quasi deo teste, jurare.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for corporal?
- The usual Latin words for “corporal” are decuriō, corporālis, corporeus; also vitium, nātūra, vōx. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.