Incorporated
/ɪnˈkɔːrpəreɪtɪd/noun
Formed into a legal corporation or included as part of a larger whole.
Did you know?The legal idea of incorporation draws on the medieval metaphor of a corporation as a “body politic,” a collective entity treated as one enduring person.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*kʷr̥p-
“Body or bodily form; the reconstructed ancestor associated with the Latin body-word family.”
Classical Latin
Latin
corpus
“Body; the physical substance of a person or thing.”
Late Latin
Latin
incorporāre
“To embody, give bodily form to, or unite with a body; formed from in- “in” and corpus “body.””
12th–13th Century
Old French
incorporer
“To incorporate or combine into a body or whole.”
15th Century
English
incorporate
“To embody, combine, or form into a corporate body.”
Modern English
English
incorporated
“Legally formed as a corporation, or joined into an integral whole.”