corolla

See also: corol·la

English

Etymology

From Latin corōlla (“small garland, chaplet or wreath”), diminutive of corōna (“garland, chaplet, wreath”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹoʊlə/, /kəˈɹɑlə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹəʊlə/, /kəˈɹɒlə/
• Hyphenation: co‧rol‧la

Noun

corolla (plural corollas or corollae or corollæ)

1. (botany) An outermost-but-one whorl of a flower, composed of petals, when it is not the same in appearance as the outermost whorl (the calyx); it usually comprises the petal, which may be fused.
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 125:

     Our wet fingers touched and we formed a circle like the corolla of a flower, floating into the silence of the desert dawn with the ancient sun on our bodies.

Related terms

• corolline
• corollate
• corollaceous

Translations

whorl of a flower

• Arabic: تُوَيْج‎ m (tuwayj), تاج‎ (ar) (tāj)
• Assamese: দলমণ্ডল n (dolomondol)
• Bulgarian: венче (bg) n (venče)
• Catalan: corol·la (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 花冠 (zh) (huāguān)

• Czech: koruna (cs) f
• Dutch: kroon (nl) m, bloemkroon (nl) m
• Finnish: teriö (fi)
• French: corolle (fr) f
• German: Blumenkrone f, Korolla (de) f, Krone (de) f
• Greek: στεφάνη (el) f (stefáni)
• Italian: corolla (it) f
• Japanese: 花冠 (ja) (かかん, kakan)
• Marathi: दली (dalī)
• Portuguese: corola (pt) f
• Romanian: corolă (ro) f
• Russian: ве́нчик (ru) m (vénčik)
• Spanish: corola (es) f
• Tagalog: korola
• Ukrainian: віно́чок m (vinóčok)

See also

• petal
• perianth
• tepal
• calyx
• sepal

Anagrams

• Carollo

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin corōlla (“small garland, chaplet or wreath”), diminutive of corōna (“garland, chaplet, wreath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈrol.la/
• Rhymes: -olla
• Hyphenation: co‧ról‧la

Noun

corolla f (plural corolle)

1. (botany) corolla

Anagrams

• Carollo, colarlo, corallo

Latin

Etymology

From corōna (“garland, chaplet, wreath”) +‎ -la (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /koˈroːl.la/, [kɔˈroːlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈrol.la/, [koˈrɔlːä]

Noun

corōlla f (genitive corōllae); first declension

1. Diminutive of corōna (“garland, chaplet, wreath”)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	corōlla	corōllae
Genitive	corōllae	corōllārum
Dative	corōllae	corōllīs
Accusative	corōllam	corōllās
Ablative	corōllā	corōllīs
Vocative	corōlla	corōllae

Derived terms

• corōllāria
• corōllārium

Related terms

• corōna
• corōnāmentum
• corōnārius
• corōnō

Descendants

• Catalan: curull, → corol·la
• → English: corolla
• → French: corolle
• → Galician: corola
• → Italian: corolla
• → Portuguese: corola, carola
• → Spanish: corola, corolla

References

• “corolla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “corolla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• corolla in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• corolla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “corolla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “corolla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin