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From Middle English corpulent, from Old French corpulent, from Latin corpulentus.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɔːpjələnt/, /ˈkɔːpjʊlənt/
• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkoɹpjəlɪnt/

corpulent (comparative more corpulent, superlative most corpulent)

1. Large in body; fat; overweight.
   corpulent person
2. (obsolete) Physical, material, corporeal.

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

• See also Thesaurus:obese

• corpulently

• corpulentness

• uncorpulent

• corpulence

large in body; fat

• Arabic:
  Egyptian Arabic: تخين (tiḵīn), سمين (samīn)

• Bengali: মোটা (bn) (mōṭa)

• Bulgarian: пълен (bg) (pǎlen), тлъст (bg) (tlǎst), месест (bg) (mesest)

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 胖 (zh) (pàng), 肥胖 (zh) (féipàng)

• Esperanto: korpulenta

• French: corpulent (fr)

• German: korpulent (de), beleibt (de)

• Greek: παχύσαρκος (el) (pachýsarkos)

• Hindi: मोटा (hi) (moṭā)

• Hungarian: korpulens (hu)

• Icelandic: feitur (is), feitlaginn

• Japanese: 肥満 (ja) (ひまん, himan)

• Latin: corpulentus, obesus

• Plautdietsch: forsch

• Polish: korpulentny (pl)

• 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
  Latin: korpulentno, korpulentan (sh)

• Spanish: corpulento (es), obeso (es)

• Tocharian B: kraupalñetstse

• Turkish: semiz (tr), etli butlu (tr), şişman (tr), besili (tr), yağlı (tr), etli (tr), dolgun (tr), balıketli, etine dolgun (tr)
  Ottoman Turkish: سمیز (semiz), شیشمان (şişman)

• Urdu: موٹا (moṭā)

• Uyghur: ئەتلىك (etlik), سېمىز (sëmiz)

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

Learned borrowing from Latin corpulentus.

• IPA(key): (Central) [kur.puˈlen]
• IPA(key): (Balearic) [kor.puˈlent]
• IPA(key): (Valencia) [koɾ.puˈlent]

corpulent (feminine corpulenta, masculine plural corpulents, feminine plural corpulentes)

1. well-built, burly, stout, solid

• corpus
• corpulència
• “corpulent”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from Middle French corpulent, from Old French corpulent, from Latin corpulentus.

• IPA(key): /ˌkɔr.pyˈlɛnt/
• Hyphenation: cor‧pu‧lent
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

corpulent (comparative corpulenter, superlative corpulentst)

1. overweight, corpulent
   Synonyms: gezet, lijvig

• corpulentheid
• corpulentie

Inherited from Middle French corpulent, from Old French corpulent, a borrowing from Latin corpulentus.

• IPA(key): /kɔʁ.py.lɑ̃/

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

1. corpulent, stout

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