coronate

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English

Pronunciation

(adjective):
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɒɹənət/, /ˈkɒɹəˌneɪt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɔɹənɪt/, /ˈkɔɹəˌneɪt/
(verb):

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin corōnātus (crowned), past perfect participle of corōnō (I crown), from corōna (crown).[1][2]

Verb

coronate (third-person singular simple present coronates, present participle coronating, simple past and past participle coronated)

  1. (rare) To crown (a sovereign or champion).
    • 1657, Tomlinson, translating Jean de Renou's A Medicinal Dispensatory, page 475:
      and instead of Coronating your deserved Worth
    • 1891, Virgil Chittenden Hart, The Temple and the Sage, page 65:
      The whole field of literature has freely surrendered its classic gems to coronate him the intellectual king.
    • 2005, Telegraph India:
      Tribals defy custom, bow to queen - Great Andamanese gear up to coronate first woman
    • 2023, USA Today
      On a soggy London day in June 1953, a bright-eyed 27-year-old married mother named Elizabeth was coronated as queen of England.
Usage notes
  • Most speakers prefer crown.
Derived terms
Translations

Adjective

coronate (not comparable)

  1. (zoology) Having a crest or a crownlike appendage.
  2. (zoology) Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished.
  3. (zoology, of a spiral shell) Girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English coronate, from Latin corōnātus.[3]

Adjective

coronate (not comparable)

  1. Having or wearing a crown; crowned.
    • 1513, Henry Bradshaw, The Holy Lyfe and History of Saynt Werburge, page 181:
      The duke of Normandy / William conquerour [] Was coronate at London /  []
    • 1464 (originally written); 1543 (rewritten), John Hardyng, The Chronicle of Ihon Hardyng in Metre, frõ the First Begynnyng of Englãde, vnto yt Reigne of Edwarde ye Fourth Where He Made an End of His Chronicle. And from yt Tyme Is Added with a Cõtinuacion of the Storie in Prose to This Our Tyme, Now First Emprinted, Gathered out of Diuerse and Sondrie Autours of Moste Certain Knowelage & Substanciall Credit, yt Either in Latin or Els in Our Mother Toungue Haue Writen of ye Affaires of Englande., London: In officina Richardi Graftoni:
      Maryus his ſoonne was then intronizate / And ſette on high in trone of maieſtie / With croune of golde full royally coronate / As worthy was vnto his royalte / Who nouriſhed was at Rome in his inuente / With his mothers kynne the beest of the empire / With Claudius also, that was his oune graũdsir [] Seuerus thus the worthy senatour / Descẽded downe, right heire to Androge{us} / The eldeſt ſoonne of Lud that with the Emperoure / Out of Britayn that went with Iulius / Whiche Senatoure afore ſayd Seuerus / To Britayn came and was intromizate / And with a crowne of golde was coronate.
Translations

References

  1. ^ coronate, v.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  2. ^ coronate, adj.2”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  3. ^ coronate, adj.1”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Further reading

Anagrams

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

coronate

  1. inflection of coronare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

coronate f pl

  1. feminine plural of coronato

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

corōnāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of corōnō

Spanish

Verb

coronate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of coronar combined with te