coronis
See also: Coronis
English
Etymology
From the Latin corōnis, from the Ancient Greek κορωνίς (korōnís, “crasis coronis”, “editorial coronis”); cognate with the French coronis.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kŏrōʹnĭs, IPA(key): /kɒˈɹəʊnɪs/,[1]
Noun
coronis (plural coronides)
- (printing, publishing) A device, curved stroke, or flourish formed with a pen, coming at the end of a book or chapter; a colophon. For example: ⸎, ۞.
- (figuratively, obsolete, rare)[1] The conclusion of something; the end of something.[1]
- 1592–1670: Bishop John Hacket, Scrinia reserata: a Memorial offer’d to the great Deservings of John Williams, D.D., Archbishop of York, volume 2, page 38
- The coronis of this matter is thus ; some bad ones in this family were punish’d strictly, all rebuk’d, not all amended.
- 1592–1670: Bishop John Hacket, Scrinia reserata: a Memorial offer’d to the great Deservings of John Williams, D.D., Archbishop of York, volume 2, page 38
- (Ancient Greek grammar)[1] A character similar to an apostrophe or the smooth breathing written atop or next to a non–word-initial vowel retained from the second word which formed a contraction resulting from crasis; see the usage note.
Usage notes
- Generally, the Ancient Greek breathings are only written atop initial letters (the consonant rho, initial vowels, and the second vowels of word-initial diphthongs). The coronis is one of only two exceptions to this rule (appearing for example over the second letter of the second word of καλός κἀγαθός (kalós kagathós)); the other is the case of the double-rho, which is written as ῤῥ.
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Verb
coronis
- second-person singular present subjunctive of coronar
French
Noun
coronis m (plural coronis)
- tree grayling (butterfly Hipparchia statilinus)
Noun
coronis f (plural coronis)
- coronis (diacritic)
Synonyms
- (butterfly): faune
Friulian
Noun
coronis
- plural of corone
Latin
Etymology 1
From the Ancient Greek κορωνίς (korōnís, “crasis coronis”, “editorial coronis”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔˈroː.nɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [koˈrɔː.nis]
Noun
corōnis f (genitive corōnidis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | corōnis | corōnidēs |
genitive | corōnidis | corōnidum |
dative | corōnidī | corōnidibus |
accusative | corōnidem | corōnidēs |
ablative | corōnide | corōnidibus |
vocative | corōnis | corōnidēs |
Descendants
Etymology 2
Inflected form of corōna (“garland, wreath; crown”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔˈroː.niːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [koˈrɔː.nis]
Noun
corōnīs
- dative/ablative plural of corōna
References
- “coronis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- coronis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “coronis”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[1]
- “coronis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “coronis”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “coronis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin