corolla

See also: corol·la

English

Etymology

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

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 1992, p. 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

• Assamese: দলমণ্ডল n (dôlômôndôl)
• Bulgarian: венче (bg) n (venče)
• 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
• Russian: ве́нчик (ru) m (vénčik)
• Spanish: corola (es) f
• Ukrainian: віно́чок m (vinóčok)

See also

• petal
• perianth
• tepal
• calyx
• sepal

Anagrams

• Carollo

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Italian

Etymology

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

Noun

corolla f (plural corolle)

1. (botany) corolla

Anagrams

• colarlo
• corallo

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /koˈroːl.la/, [kɔˈroːl.la]

Noun

corōlla f (genitive corōllae); first declension

1. A small garland, chaplet or wreath.

Inflection

First declension.

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

• English: corolla
• French: corolle
• Galician: corola

• Italian: corolla
• Portuguese corola
• 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
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “corolla”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “corolla” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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