Etymograph

English

incorporate

Incorporate comes from Late Latin incorporātus ‘provided with a body, embodied’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *krep-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*krep-1‘body’root named by Wiktionary
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*krépos2‘body’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*korpos2‘body’reconstructed
  4. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEcorpus1as corporis‘body’
  5. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEincorporō1‘to embody, to incorporate’
  6. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEincorporātus1‘provided with a body, embodied’perfect passive participle of incorporō
  7. Englishearliest quotation c. 1591–1595incorporate1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English incorporate
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Latin corpus
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet: “By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, /…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*krep-Wiktionary, English incorporate‘body’root named by Wiktionary
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*kréposWiktionary, Latin corpus‘body’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*korposWiktionary, Latin corpus‘body’reconstructed
  4. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEcorpusWiktionary, English incorporateas corporis‘body’
  5. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEincorporōWiktionary, English incorporate‘to embody, to incorporate’
  6. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEincorporātusWiktionary, English incorporate‘provided with a body, embodied’perfect passive participle of incorporō
  7. Englishearliest quotation c. 1591–1595incorporateWiktionary, English incorporate. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet: “By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, /…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *krep- ‘body’

riff, corporeal, 6 more

through Proto-Italic *korpos ‘body’

corpse, 10 more

through Late Latin corpus ‘body’

corporation, corps, corpus, corporal, corse, corsage, corpulent, 11 more

Today it means

verb To include (something) as a part.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “incorporate”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin corpus. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *krep- / incorporate

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