corporation · society, association, especially an entity founded to pursue a common goal or to work for the common good
çekim: çoğul corporaties
eş: vakgenootschap, vakvereniging
köken: Borrowed from English corporation or directly from French corporation, further derived from Late Latin corporātiō (“becoming a single body”), derived in turn from Latin corporō (“to make into a single body”), derived from corpus (“body”).
a type of corporation under Japanese law, analogous to an American business corporation or British public limited company
köken: Compound of 株式 (kabushiki, “stock”) + 会社 (gaisha, “corporation”). The kaisha changes to gaisha as an instance of rendaku (連濁). First cited to 1891 in the novel かくれんぼ (Kakurenbo, “Hide and Seek”) by 斎藤緑雨 (Saitō Ryokuu).
eş: bractwo, korporacja akademicka, stowarzyszenie studentów
köken: Learned borrowing from Late Latin corporātiō (“assumption of a body”), from Latin corporatus, past participle of corporare (“to form into a body”).