Corporate means belonging to a large company. Corporate culture, corporate hospitality, the corporate world.
It has picked up a tone: corporate speak and corporate culture are rarely said with warmth. The Latin behind it means formed into a body, which is exactly what a company is in law, a person made of people.
1adjectivecorporateBelonging to a large company.
“She left her corporate job to open a small bakery.”
corporate is a quality.
Latin corporatus means formed into a body, from corpus, a body.
Proto-Indo-European
*krep-
Latin
corporātus
English, today
corporate
Built from
The adjective is 1429, the noun in 1849; from Middle English corporat (“(if a true adjective) corporeal, physical, embodied; (participle/participial adjective) incorporated; corporated, constituted as a legal corporation”), from Latin corporātus, perfect passive participle of corporō (“to make into a body”) (see -ate), from corpus + -ō. The noun was derived by substantivization from the adjective, see -ate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA