Other forms: corpses
A corps is an organised body of people, especially a military branch. The medical corps, an army corps, the diplomatic corps.
The ps is silent, and the plural is spelt the same but sounds different — one corps, two corps with a z sound. It is the French for body, and corpse and corpus are the same Latin word arriving by different roads. The press corps is the reporters covering one beat.
1nouncorpsAn organised body of people.
“She joined the diplomatic corps after university and was posted abroad.”
corps is an organised body.
French corps means a body, from Latin corpus. Corpse and corpus are the same word by other routes.
Proto-Indo-European
*krep-
Latin
corpus — body
French
corps d'armée
English, today
corps
From French corps d'armée literally “army body”, from Latin corpus (“body”). a doublet of corpse and corpus. See also English riff.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA