corpus mortuum: corpus (hominis) mortui; also corpus only, or mortuus (we find corpus examine and exanimum only in Liv., 8, 24, and Curt. 10, 10, 12): cadaver (in a slate of decomposition, as Cic., Mil., 13, 33; Clodii cruentum cadaver canibus dilamandum relinquere; only in later writers = corpus mortuum generally): funus (the corpse, with reference to the obsequies) anybody’s corpse, corpus alicujus; aliquis mortuus; funus alicujus: to wash, lay out, embalm, etc. the corpse, corpus mortuum curare: to bury a corpse, corpus mortuum efferre or sepelire.