corpulent

English

Etymology

From Old French corpulent, from Latin corpulentus.

Adjective

corpulent (comparative more corpulent, superlative most corpulent)

Large in body; fat; overweight.
(obsolete) Physical, material, corporeal.

Usage notes

In contemporary usage, "corpulent" can designate a range of bodily states, from modest plumpness to significant fatness to extreme obesity.

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:obese

Derived terms

corpulence

Translations

large in body; fat

Bengali: মোটা (moṭa)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 胖 (zh) (pàng), 肥胖 (zh) (féipàng)
French: corpulent (fr)
German: korpulent (de), beleibt (de)
Greek: παχύσαρκος (el) (pachýsarkos)
Hindi: मोटा (hi) (moṭā)
Hungarian: korpulens
Icelandic: feitur (is), feitlaginn

Japanese: 肥満 (ja) (ひまん, himan)
Polish: korpulentny (pl) m
Portuguese: corpulento (pt)
Romanian: corpolent (ro)
Russian: по́лный (ru) (pólnyj), ту́чный (ru) (túčnyj), доро́дный (ru) (doródnyj), (impolite) жи́рный (ru) (žírnyj), (impolite) то́лстый (ru) (tólstyj), корпуле́нтный (ru) (korpuléntnyj)
Serbo-Croatian: корпулентно, корпулентан
Roman: korpulentno m, korpulentan (sh) m
Spanish: obeso (es)
Urdu: موٹا‎‎ (moṭā)

References

Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

French

Adjective

corpulent (feminine singular corpulente, masculine plural corpulents, feminine plural corpulentes)

corpulent, stout

Related terms

corpulence

Further reading

“corpulent” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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