Lexica → Word → incorporate
Letter | I |
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Letter name | i |
Pronounciation | /aɪ/ |
Word: | incorporate |
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Pronounciation: | |
Century: | 14th |
DA Name: | incorporate |
Era: | C.E. |
Origin: | Original |
Type: | Official |
Source Language: | Latin |
Source Language Words: | |
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Definition: | From 14th Century Latin incorporatus meaning "the action of uniting into one body having legal PERSONALITY according to some valid CHARTER". From the combination of ancient Latin in- "into" and corpus "body". By the 17th Century the word was also given a scientific meaning with "to put (something) into the body or substance of (something else)". |