corolla
See also: corol·la
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin corōlla (“small garland, chaplet or wreath”), diminutive of corōna (“garland, chaplet, wreath”).
Noun[edit]
corolla (plural corollas or corollae or corollæ)
- (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.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 125:
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Translations[edit]
whorl of a flower
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Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin corōlla (“small garland, chaplet or wreath”), diminutive of corōna (“garland, chaplet, wreath”).
Noun[edit]
corolla f (plural corolle)
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Diminutive of corōna (“garland, chaplet, wreath”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
corōlla f (genitive corōllae); first declension
Inflection[edit]
Case | Singular | Plural |
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nominative | corōlla | corōllae |
genitive | corōllae | corōllārum |
dative | corōllae | corōllīs |
accusative | corōllam | corōllās |
ablative | corōllā | corōllīs |
vocative | corōlla | corōllae |
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References[edit]
- 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, 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
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