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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κορωνός (korōnós, “curved”) + -ῐ́ς (-ís).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ko.rɔː.nís/ → /ko.roˈnis/ → /ko.roˈnis/
Noun
κορωνῐ́ς • (korōnís) f (genitive κορωνῐ́δος); third declension
- something crook-beaked or curved
- a cow with crumpled horns
- anything curved or bent
- a wreath or garland
- a curved line or stroke, flourish
- (figuratively) end, completion
- the mark of crasis or apostrophe, i.e. a breathing mark in the middle of a word, which only appears in words formed by crasis, such as in ταὐτός (tautós)
Declension
Coordinate terms
- (προσῳδίαι ἑλληνικαί) προσῳδία; βαρεῖα ⟨ ` ⟩, βραχεῖα ⟨ ˘ ⟩, δασεῖα ⟨ ῾ ⟩, διαίρεσις ⟨ ¨ ⟩, κορωνίς ⟨ ᾽ ⟩, μακρά ⟨ ¯ ⟩, ὀξεῖα ⟨ ´ ⟩, περισπωμένη ⟨ ῀ ⟩, προσγεγραμμένη ⟨ ι ⟩, ὑπογεγραμμένη ⟨ ͺ ⟩, ψιλή ⟨ ᾿ ⟩ (Category: grc:Diacritical marks)
Descendants
References
- “κορωνίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κορωνίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κορωνίς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κορωνίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κορωνίς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963