corpus

At its heart, corpus means “body.” English borrowed it from Latin corpus, and the English word is a doublet of corpse and corps. From the idea of a body, corpus came to mean a body or collection of texts, including the electronic databases used in linguistic analysis, and more broadly a collection of objects with shared characteristics. It also retains specialized uses for a structure in an animal body; the older general sense “the body of a man or animal” is now archaic.