Saint Elmo's fire
Origin of corposant
Portuguese corpo santo, holy body from Classical Latin corpus sanctum, holy bodycorposant
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corposant
noun
See Saint Elmo's fire.
Origin of corposant
Portugueseobsolete Spanish corpo santo both from Latin corpus sānctum holy body corpus body ; see kwrep- in Indo-European roots. sānctus holy past participle of sancīre to consecrate ; see sak- in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural corposants)
- An electrical discharge accompanied by a corona of ionization in the surrounding atmosphere
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