2014年12月2日 星期二

corpus, corpus fund, leprechaun, rainbow

In 2006, Kejriwal was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership recognising his involvement in a grassroots movement (Parivartan) using right-to-information legislation in a campaign against corruption. The same year, after resigning from the IRS, he donated his Magsaysay award money as a corpus fund to found thePublic Cause Research Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO).

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 corpus

Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːpəs
  
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Definition of corpus in English:

NOUN (plural corpora /ˈkɔːpərə/ or corpuses)


1collection of written texts, especially the entireworks of a particular author or a body of writing on aparticular subject:the Darwinian corpus
1.1collection of written or spoken material inmachine-readable form, assembled for thepurpose of linguistic research.
2Anatomy The main body or mass of a structure.
2.1The central part of the stomach, between thefundus and the antrum.

Origin

late Middle English (denoting a human or animal body): from Latin, literally 'body'. sense 1 dates from the early 18th century.


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    Mar 13, 2008 - This term generally refers to money donated to a charity with the provision that the principle will not be spent, but the income from the principle or ...

lep·re·chaun (lĕp'rĭ-kŏn', -kôn') pronunciationn.
One of a race of elves in Irish folklore who can reveal hidden treasure to those who catch them.

[Irish Gaelic luprachán, alteration of Middle Irish luchrupán, from Old Irish luchorpán : luchorp (lú-, small + corp, body , from Latin corpus) + -án, diminutive suff.]
leprechaunish lep're·chaun'ish adj.
WORD HISTORY Nothing seems more Irish than the leprechaun; yet hiding within the word leprechaun is a word from another language entirely. If we look back beyond Modern Irish Gaelic luprachán and Middle Irish luchrupán to Old Irish luchorpán, we can see the connection. Luchorpán is a compound of Old Irish lú, meaning "small," and the Old Irish word corp, "body." Corp is borrowed from Latin corpus (which we know from habeas corpus). Here is a piece of evidence attesting to the deep influence of Church Latin on the Irish language. Although the word is old in Irish it is fairly new in English, being first recorded in 1604.

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