corpulence

English

Alternative forms

corpulency

Etymology

From Old French corpulence, from Latin corpulentia.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkɔː(ɹ)pjʊləns/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

corpulence (countable and uncountable, plural corpulences)

The state or characteristic of being corpulent.

Synonyms

Derived terms

corpulence index

Translations

state or characteristic of being corpulent

Bulgarian: дебелина (bg) f (debelina)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 肥胖 (zh) (féipàng), 肥滿／肥满 (zh) (féimǎn)
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
Russian: ту́чность (ru) f (túčnostʹ), доро́дность (ru) f (doródnostʹ)
Spanish: obesidad (es) f

French

Etymology

From Latin corpulentia.

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Noun

corpulence f (plural corpulences)

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.

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