coral

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English

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Etymology

From Old French coral (French corail), from Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek κοράλλιον (korállion, “coral”). Probably ultimately of Semitic origin,[1] compare Hebrew גּוֹרָל (goral, “small pebble”), Arabic جَرَل (jaral, “small stone”), originally referring to the red variety found in the Mediterranean. Since ancient times, a common folk etymology, accepted by some earlier scholars, connected the word instead to Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē) (referring to Medusa).[2][3][4] Beekes mentions both theories and considers the Semitic one convincing.[5]

Pronunciation

Noun

coral (countable and uncountable, plural corals)

  1. (uncountable) A hard substance made of the limestone skeletons of marine polyps.
  2. (countable) A colony of marine polyps.
  3. (countable) A somewhat yellowish pink colour, the colour of red coral.
    coral:  
  4. The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their colour.
  5. (historical) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
    • 1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White‎[1]:
      On the very chair which I used to occupy when I was at work Marian was sitting now, with the child industriously sucking his coral upon her lap.

Translations

Adjective

coral (not comparable)

  1. Made of coral.
  2. Having the yellowish pink colour of coral.

Derived terms

terms derived from coral

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Translations

See also

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References

  1. ^ Lewy, Heinrich (1895) Die semitischen Fremdwörter im Griechischen (in German), Berlin: R. Gaertner’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, pages 18–19
  2. ^ See e.g. Lithica (one of the Orphic poems), 510-610, and Pliny the Elder, Natural History, book XXXII, line 11.
  3. ^ C. W. King, The Natural History of Gems or Decorative Stones, 1867, Bell & Daldy, London, pp. 100–101.
  4. ^ Liddell and Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, Harpers & Brothers, New York, 1846, p. 792.
  5. ^ 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

Anagrams

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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Adjective

coral m or f (masculine and feminine plural corals)

  1. strong, close (relationship)

Etymology 2

cor (“choir”) +‎ -al.

Adjective

coral m or f (masculine and feminine plural corals)

  1. choral

Noun

coral m (plural corals)

  1. chorus music
  2. chorale

Etymology 3

Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek κοράλλιον (korállion).

Noun

coral m (plural corals)

  1. coral (organism)

Galician

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese coral, borrowed from Old French coral, from Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek κοράλλιον (korállion).

Noun

coral m (plural corais)

  1. (zoology) coral
    • 1395, Antonio López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 160:
      mando a miña Neta Tareija sanches todo o aliofar et coraes que eu ey et os esmaltes et o meu Reliquario esmaltado et a miña Cunca de plata dourada et as miñas doas de ouro
      I send to my granddaughter Tareixa Sanchez all of my pearls and corals, and the enamels, and my enamelled relicary and my gilded silver bowl and my beads of gold
  2. coral (color)
  3. roe (the eggs or ovaries of certain crustaceans)
    Synonym: míllaras
  4. sea fan (Eunicella verrucosa)

Etymology 2

coro (“choir”) +‎ -al.

Adjective

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  1. choral

Noun

coral f (plural corais)

  1. chorale

References

Old Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French coral, from Old French corallium, from Ancient Greek κοράλλιον (korállion).

Pronunciation

Noun

coral m (plural corales)

  1. coral
    • c. 1250 Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 14v.
      DEl dozeno grado del ſigno de tauro es la piedra aque dizen coral negro.
      Of the twelfth degree of the sign of Taurus is the stone they call black coral.

Descendants

  • Spanish: coral

Portuguese

Etymology

coro +‎ -al.

Noun

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  1. choir (group of singers)

Spanish

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

From Old Spanish coral, from Old French coral, from Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek κοράλλιον (korállion).

Noun

coral m (plural corales)

  1. (zoology) coral
  2. (botany) coral vine (Kennedia coccinea)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

coro (“choir”) +‎ -al.

Adjective

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  1. choral

Noun

coral m (plural corales)

  1. chorale

References

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