By Richard K Munro

Essay #4

The old world BODY has many uses and meanings and is clearly the oldest word. Body snatcher is a funny term. I remember a character in Dickens who was a body snatcher called himself a “resurrectionist!”.  Then there are many Latin/Romance synonyms related to the latin word “CORPUS” (body). Many of these are medical, legal or military. The Greek works are technical and academic most people will not readily know these word unless they are in the medical field.

Anglo-Saxon Or Germanic Or Other (unknown)	Latin (French or Romance)	Greek
BODY       SYNONYM	Corporeal (bodily)       SYNONYM	somatic       SYNONYM
1) physical part of a person	1)corpse (dead body)or cadaver; carcass: dead body of an animal	1)relating to the body
2)group of individuals(organization)	2) corpus delicti (body of a crime) 3) Corps Diplomatic Corps Medical Corps Marine Corps (silent s from French) 4) corporal punishment 5) corporal (rank in army)	Many scientific and medical terms: Somatotherapy   Somatotype   Somotology=study of the body   Anatomy=study of body structure.
3)main part of a book or essay	Corporation (legal person)
ANTONYM Spirit/soul	ANTONYM Mental/not physical	ANTONYM
1)Body of water(mass of water)masa de agua 2)He earns enough money to keep body and soul together. Gana lo justo para vivir 3)Body snatcher (ladrón de cadavers)