κορώνη

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). See also κορωνός (korōnós, “curved, bent”).

κορώνη • (korṓnē) f (genitive κορώνης); first declension

1. a type of sea-bird, perhaps shearwater
2. crow
3. anything curved, especially a door handle
4. the tip of a bow, on which the string is hooked
5. the curved stern of a ship, especially its crown (ornamental top)
6. the tip of a plow-beam, upon which the yoke was attached
7. coronoid process of the ulna, apophysis (the part of a bone where the tendon is attached)
8. end, tip, point
9. nightingale
10. a type of crown
11. culmination of something, especially of a festival

• Greek: κουρούνα (kouroúna)
• → Greek: κορώνα (koróna)
• → Latin: corōna (see there for further descendants)

• “κορώνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κορώνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κορώνη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κορώνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κορώνη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • crow idem, page 186.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN