corporal

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From Middle English corporal, corporall, corporel, corporell, from Old French corporal (French corporel), from Latin corporālis, from Latin corpus (“body”); compare corporeal.

From French caporal, probably influenced by corporal (above), from the Italian caporale, from capo (“head, leader”) from Latin caput (“head”).

From Middle English corporall, corporalle, from the Latin corporāle, the neuter of corporālis representing the doctrine of transubstantiation in which the Eucharist becomes the body of Christ.

55 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: tetar — military rank
• Armenian: կապրալ (kapral) — military rank
• Bulgarian: ефрейтор (efrejtor) — military rank
• Catalan: caporal — military rank
• Czech: desátník — military rank
• Czech: kaprál — military rank
• Danish: korporal — military rank
• Dutch: korporaal — military rank
• Esperanto: kaporalo — military rank
• Estonian: kapral — military rank
• Finnish: alikersantti — military rank
• French: caporal — military rank
• German: Stabsgefreiter — military rank
• German: Oberstabsgefreiter — military rank
• German: Korporal — military rank
• Greek: υποδεκανέας (ypodekanéas) — military rank
• Hungarian: tizedes — military rank
• Hungarian: szakaszvezető — military rank
• Hungarian: káplár — military rank
• Indonesian: kopral — military rank
• Italian: caporale — military rank
• Japanese: 伍長 (gochō) — military rank
• Korean: 상병 (sangbyeong) — military rank
• Latin: decuriō — military rank
• Macedonian: десета́р (desetár) — military rank
• Macedonian: каплар (kaplar) — military rank
• Māori: kāpara — military rank
• Norman: corpotha — military rank
• Norwegian Bokmål: korporal — military rank
• Norwegian Nynorsk: korporal — military rank
• Persian: سرجوخه (sarjuxe) — military rank
• Polish: kapral — military rank
• Portuguese: cabo — military rank
• Russian: капра́л (kaprál) — military rank
• Spanish: cabo — military rank
• Tagalog: kabo — military rank
• Ottoman Turkish: اون باش (on baş) — military rank
• Chinese Mandarin: 二劃警員 /二划警员 (èrhuà jǐngyuán) — police rank
• Hungarian: tizedes — police rank
• Finnish: hukankorento — dragonfly of the genus Ladona
• Catalan: corporal — ecclesiastical: cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed
• Dutch: corporale — ecclesiastical: cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed
• Finnish: korporaali — ecclesiastical: cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed
• Finnish: korporaaliliina — ecclesiastical: cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed
• French: corporal — ecclesiastical: cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed
• Galician: corporal — ecclesiastical: cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed
• German: Korporale — ecclesiastical: cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed
• Indonesian: korporal — ecclesiastical: cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed
• Indonesian: korporale — ecclesiastical: cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed
• Polish: korporał — ecclesiastical: cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed
• Portuguese: corporal — ecclesiastical: cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed
• Russian: антими́нс (antimíns) — ecclesiastical: cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed
• Spanish: corporal — ecclesiastical: cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed
• Tagalog: korporal — ecclesiastical: cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed
• Tagalog: kulpuralis — ecclesiastical: cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed