corpulence

English

Alternative forms

• corpulency

Etymology

From Old French corpulence, from Latin corpulentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔː(ɹ)pjʊləns/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

corpulence (countable and uncountable, plural corpulences)

1. The characteristic or state of being corpulent.

   Synonyms: (obsolete) corpulentness, fatness, obesity, pudginess

   Antonyms: slimness, thinness

   • 1860, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “We Return to Unyanyembe”, in The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration […], volume II, London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, →OCLC, page 182:

     Corpulence is a beauty: girls are fattened to a vast bulk by drenches of curds and cream thickened with flour, and are duly disciplined when they refuse.

Derived terms

• corpulence index

Translations

characteristic or state of being corpulent

Bulgarian: дебелина (bg) f (debelina) Chinese: Mandarin: 肥滿 / 肥满 (zh) (féimǎn), 肥胖 (zh) (féipàng) French: corpulence (fr) f German: Korpulenz (de) f Hungarian: testesség (hu), kövérség (hu), korpulencia Italian: corpulenza (it) f Japanese: 肥満 (ja) (ひまん, himan) Korean: 비만(肥滿) (ko) (biman) Latin: corpulentia f, adeps m or f Ottoman Turkish: سمیزلك (semizlik), شیشمانلق (şişmanlık) Russian: ту́чность (ru) f (túčnostʹ), доро́дность (ru) f (doródnostʹ) Spanish: obesidad (es) f

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin corpulentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.py.lɑ̃s/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Noun

corpulence f (plural corpulences)

1. corpulence (quality of being corpulent)

Related terms

• corpulent

Further reading

• “corpulence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.