corona

See also: Corona, coroná, and coronà

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin corōna (“garland, crown”), from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “garland, wreath”). Doublet of crown.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kərō'nə, IPA^(key): /kəˈɹoʊnə/

Noun

corona (plural coronas or coronae or coronæ)

1. A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.
2. (astronomy) The luminous plasma atmosphere of the Sun or other star, extending millions of kilometres into space, most easily seen during a total solar eclipse,
3. (biology) Any crown-like appendage of a plant or animal.
4. (electricity) corona discharge
5. (architecture) The large, flat, projecting member of a cornice which crowns the entablature.
6. A round pendent chandelier.
7. (anatomy) The circumference of the base of the glans penis in human males.
8. (anatomy) The upper surface of certain parts of the body.

Derived terms

• coronagraph

Translations

crown

• Bulgarian: корона (bg) f (korona)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: kruunu (fi)
• German: Krone (de) f
• Greek: κορώνα (el) f (koróna), στέμμα (el) n (stémma)
• Hungarian: korona (hu)
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• Icelandic: kóróna (is) f, krúna f
• Italian: corona (it) f
• Latin: corona f
• Russian: коро́на (ru) f (koróna)
• Spanish: corona (es) f
• Turkish: taç (tr)

of a star

• Bulgarian: корона (bg) f (korona)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: korona (fi)
• French: couronne (fr) f
• German: Korona (de) f
• Greek: στέμμα (el) n (stémma)
• Hungarian: korona (hu), fényudvar
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• Icelandic: kóróna (is) f
• Italian: corona (it) f
• Japanese: コロナ (ja) (korona)
• Persian: تاج (fa) (tāǰ)
• Russian: коро́на (ru) f (koróna)
• Slovene: koróna f
• Spanish: corona (es) f

botany

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: kruunu (fi)
• Greek: κορώνα (el) f (koróna)
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• Italian: corona (it) f
• Japanese: 副花冠 (ふくかかん, fukukakan)
• Russian: коро́на (ru) f (koróna), ве́нчик (ru) m (vénčik)

circumference of the base of the glans penis in human males

• Greek: στεφάνη (el) f (stefáni)
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• Japanese: 雁首 (かりくび, karikubi)

Anagrams

• caroon, racoon

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Aragonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

corona f (plural coronas)

1. crown

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “corona”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kuˈɾo.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [koˈɾo.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [koˈɾo.na]

Etymology 1

From , from Latin corōna, from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “garland, wreath”).

Noun

corona f (plural corones)

1. crown (decorative headgear)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

corona

Further reading

• “corona” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin corōna, from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “garland, wreath”). Compare also cruna, probably from a derivative of the same Latin word.

Noun

corona f (plural corone)

1. crown (of a king, pope etc) (also of a tooth)
2. crown (various units of currency)
3. coronet
4. wreath, chaplet
5. (astronomy) corona (of a star etc)

Derived terms

• corona solare
• coronare
• coronato
• incoronare
• incoronazione

Verb

corona

1. third-person singular present indicative of coronare
2. second-person singular imperative of coronare

Anagrams

• ancoro, ancorò
• canoro
• corano, Corano

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “garland, wreath”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koˈroː.na/, [kɔˈroːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈro.na/, [koˈrɔːnä]

Noun

corōna f (genitive corōnae); first declension

1. garland, chaplet, laurel, or wreath; presented to athletes, the gods, or the dead
   • c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Menaechmi 3.1.16:

     sed quid egō videō? Menaechmus cum corōnā exit forās

     But why do I see Menaechmus here? He's coming out of doors with a chaplet on?

2. crown
   • c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Menaechmi 5.5.38:

     at ego tē sacram corōnam surrupuisse Iovī sciō

     And I know that you stole the sacred crown of Jupiter.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	corōna	corōnae
Genitive	corōnae	corōnārum
Dative	corōnae	corōnīs
Accusative	corōnam	corōnās
Ablative	corōnā	corōnīs
Vocative	corōna	corōnae

Related terms

• corōlla
• corōnālis
• corōnāmentum
• corōnārius
• corōnātus
• corōnō

Descendants

• Albanian: kurorë
• Aromanian: cãrunã, curunã
• Asturian: corona
• Catalan: corona
• English: corona, crown
• Faroese: króna
• French: couronne
• Friulian: corone
• Galician: coroa
• German: Krone
• Icelandic: króna
• Irish: coróin, corann
• Italian: corona, cruna
• Norman: couorône, couraonne
• Occitan: corona
• → Old Dutch: corōna
  • Middle Dutch: crône
    • Dutch: kroon
• Old Occitan: corona
• Old Galician-Portuguese: corõa
  • Portuguese: coroa, corona
• Romanian: coroană, cunună
• Romansch: curuna, cruna
• Russian: коро́на (koróna)
• Sardinian: corona, curona
• Sicilian: curuna
• Scots: croun
• Spanish: corona
• Welsh: coron

References

• “corona”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “corona”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• corona 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)
• corona in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to elicit loud applause: clamores (coronae) facere, excitare
    
  • to sell a prisoner of war as a slave: aliquem sub corona vendere (B. G. 3. 16)
    
  • the free men are sold as slaves: libera corpora sub corona (hasta) veneunt (B. G. 3. 16. 4)
    
• “corona”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[2]
• “corona”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “corona”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Leonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

corona f (plural coronas)

1. crown

References

• AEDLL

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Old English

Etymology

From Latin corōna, from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “garland, wreath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.roː.nɑ/

Noun

corōna m

1. crown

Declension

Declension of corōna (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	corōna	corōnan
accusative	corōnan	corōnan
genitive	corōnan	corōnena
dative	corōnan	corōnum

Derived terms

• ġecorōnian

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “corōna”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[3], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin corōna, from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “garland, wreath”).

Noun

corona f (oblique plural coronas, nominative singular corona, nominative plural coronas)

1. crown

Descendants

• Catalan: corona
• Occitan: corona, courouno

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈɾona/ [koˈɾo.na]

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish corona, from Latin corōna (“crown”), from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “garland, wreath”).

Noun

corona f (plural coronas)

1. crown
2. (heraldry) crown
3. crown (various units of currency)
4. (of a star) corona
5. wreath; ring, circle
6. sprocket; (bicycle sprockets) cassette
7. (mechanics) larger part of a pair of gear wheels

   Synonym: rueda dentada

   Antonym: piñón

8. washer

   Synonym: arandela

Derived terms

• coronal
• coroniblanco
• coronilla
• moldura de corona

Related terms

• corola
• coronar
• coronel

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

corona

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of coronar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of coronar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of coronar.

Further reading

• “corona”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014