corann

From Old Irish corann, from Latin corōna (“crown”). Doublet of coróin.

corann f (genitive singular coirne, nominative plural coirneacha)

1. tonsure
2. crown

• (crown): coróin

• coirneach (“tonsured, monk”)

corann

1. Alternative genitive singular form of cora (“weir”)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “corann (‘tonsure’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “corann”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Borrowed from Latin corona (“crown”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.rən͈/

corann f (genitive corne, nominative plural coirnea)

1. tonsure, crown of the head
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 11^c10

     cen chorin ― (glosses uelato capite)

2. crown
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 24^a6

     innacorne ― (glosses in modum coronæ)

   • c. 810, Biblical Glosses in the Book Armagh, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 494–98, Ardm. 180^a2

     coirnea ― (glosses Latin corōnās)

• Irish: corann (“tonsure”)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “corann”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language