corse

Old French cors, from Latin corpus (“body”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɔːs/

corse (plural corses)

1. (obsolete) A (living) body.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     that lewd ribauld with vile lust aduaunst / Layd first his filthy hands on virgin cleene, / To spoile her daintie corse so faire and sheene […]

2. (archaic) A dead body, a corpse.
   • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 214:

     Ambrosio beheld before him that once noble and majestic form, now become a corse, cold, senseless, and disgusting.

• Crose, Secor, Sorce, ceros, cores, creos, ocres, score

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁs/

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corse (plural corses)

1. Corsican

corse m (uncountable)

1. Corsican (language)

corse

1. first-person singular present indicative of corser
2. third-person singular present indicative of corser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of corser
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of corser
5. second-person singular imperative of corser

• “corse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• ocres, score, scoré

• IPA^(key): /ˈkor.se/, [ˈkor̺s̪e]
• Stress: córse
• Hyphenation: cor‧se

corse f

1. plural of corsa

corse

1. third-person singular past historic of correre

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔr.se/, [ˈkɔr̺s̪e]
• Stress: còrse
• Hyphenation: cor‧se

corse

1. feminine plural of corso

corse f

1. plural of corsa

• Creso

corse

1. vocative singular masculine of corsus