coronis

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English

Etymology

From the Latin corōnis, from the Ancient Greek κορωνίς (korōnís, “crasis coronis”, “editorial coronis”); cognate with the French coronis.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

coronis (plural coronides)

  1. (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: ⸎, ۞.
  2. (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.
  3. (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.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 “‖coronis” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary

Anagrams

Catalan

Verb

coronis

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of coronar

French

Noun

coronis m (plural coronis)

  1. tree grayling (butterfly Hipparchia statilinus)

Noun

coronis f (plural coronis)

  1. coronis (diacritic)

Synonyms

Friulian

Noun

coronis

  1. plural of corone

Latin

Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek κορωνίς (korōnís, “crasis coronis”, “editorial coronis”).

Pronunciation

Noun

corōnis f (genitive corōnidis); third declension

  1. coronis, colophon
  2. The end of a book or chapter.
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
  • English: coronis
  • French: coronis
  • Italian: coronide

Etymology 2

Inflected form of corōna (“garland, wreath; crown”).

Pronunciation

Noun

corōnīs

  1. 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
  • “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
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