Root

Original Meaning/ Usage Notes

 English Derivatives

 Vocabulary

corp- [from Latin]

 (noun)

body

 corporal

corporation [literally, ‘an embodiment;’ a body of individuals legally recognized as a separate entity.]

corps [literally, ‘a body;’ a group of persons, especially military, united for the accomplishment of a specific purpose.]

corpse [literally, ‘(dead) body.’]

corpulent

corpuscle [literally, ‘little body;’ an unattached body cell.]

 corporal (adjective) [literally, ‘of the body;’ relating to the body; bodily.]

corpulent (adjective) [literally, ‘having an excess of body;’ plump, fat.]

soma- [from Greek]

 (noun)

body

 chromosome

merosome [literally, ‘part of the body.’]

psychosomatic [literally, ‘soul-bodily;’ relating to an illness with physical or bodily symptoms but with a mental or psychological cause; psychogenetic.]

somatology [literally, ‘speech about the body;’ the physiological study of the body.]

somatoplasm [literally, ‘molded body;’ the total differentiated protoplasm composing the body.]

somatotype

 chromosome (noun) [literally, ‘colored body;’ a strand of DNA.]

somatotype (noun) [literally, ‘body outline;’ the body type or body structure of a person.]