corporal

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

cor·poral [corporal corporals] BrE [ˈkɔːpərəl] NAmE [ˈkɔːrpərəl] noun (abbr.Cpl)
a member of one of the lower ranks in the army, the ↑marines or the British ↑air force
•Corporal Smith

Word Origin:
mid 16th cent.: from French, obsolete variant of caporal, from Italian caporale, probably based on Latin corpus, corpor- ‘body (of troops)’, with a change of spelling in Italian due to association with capo ‘head’.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  bodied, corporate, embodied, incarnate, bodily, corporeal, somatic