capital vs corpus

corpus vs capital

capital and corpus both are nouns.

capital is an adjective but corpus is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
capital	Yes	Yes	No	No
corpus	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, corpus is a hyponym of capital; that is, corpus is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than capital:

capital: wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
corpus: capital as contrasted with the income derived from it

Other hyponyms of capital include endowment, endowment fund, means, substance, principal, principal sum.

capital (noun)	corpus (noun)
the upper part of a column that supports the entablature	the main part of an organ or other bodily structure
one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis	a collection of writings
a seat of government	capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
assets available for use in the production of further assets

capital (adjective)	corpus (adjective)
of principal importance
first-rate
uppercase

Difference between capital and corpus

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