English → Latin
“corps” in Latin
collēgiumcolleagueship, (connection of associates, colleagues, etc.); guild, corporation, company, society, college (concrete defexercitusexercise; trouble, affliction; an exercised, disciplined body of men, an armylēgātiōambassador (office, not person); embassy; member of an embassy; legation; a diplomatic mission (cf. Whitaker’s Words)
The English word corps itself goes back to Latin corpus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
corps
corpus, collegium: the diplomatic corps, legationes.
A division, maims; exercitus; pars exercitus; copiarum agmen (on the march, a detachment).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for corps?
- The usual Latin words for “corps” are collēgium, exercitus, lēgātiō. 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.