coronate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin corōnātus (“crowned”), past perfect participle of corōnō (“I crown”), from corōna (“crown”).

Pronunciation

(adjective):

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒɹənət/, /ˈkɒɹəˌneɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹənɪt/, /ˈkɔɹəˌneɪt/

(verb):

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒɹəˌneɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹəˌneɪt/

Verb

coronate (third-person singular simple present coronates, present participle coronating, simple past and past participle coronated)

1. To crown (a sovereign or champion).
   • 1657, Tomlinson, translating Jean de Renou's A Medicinal Dispensatory, page 475:

     […] and instead of Coronating your deserved Worth […]

   • 1891, Virgil Chittenden Hart, The Temple and the Sage, page 65:

     The whole field of literature has freely surrendered its classic gems to coronate him the intellectual king.

   • 2005, Telegraph India‎^[1]:

     Tribals defy custom, bow to queen - Great Andamanese gear up to coronate first woman

   • 2023, USA Today

     On a soggy London day in June 1953, a bright-eyed 27-year-old married mother named Elizabeth was coronated as queen of England.

Usage notes

• Many speakers prefer crown.

Related terms

• coronation
• corona
• crown

Translations

crown — see crown

Adjective

coronate (not comparable)

1. Having or wearing a crown; crowned.
   • 1513, Henry Bradshaw, The Holy Lyfe and History of Saynt Werburge, page 181:

     The duke of Normandy / William conquerour […] Was coronate at London /  […]

   • 1464 (originally written); 1543 (rewritten), John Hardyng, The Chronicle of Ihon Hardyng in Metre, frõ the First Begynnyng of Englãde, vnto y^t Reigne of Edwarde y^e Fourth Where He Made an End of His Chronicle. And from y^t Tyme Is Added with a Cõtinuacion of the Storie in Prose to This Our Tyme, Now First Emprinted, Gathered out of Diuerse and Sondrie Autours of Moste Certain Knowelage & Substanciall Credit, y^t Either in Latin or Els in Our Mother Toungue Haue Writen of y^e Affaires of Englande., London: In officina Richardi Graftoni:

     Maryus his ſoonne was then intronizate / And ſette on high in trone of maieſtie / With croune of golde full royally coronate / As worthy was vnto his royalte / Who nouriſhed was at Rome in his inuente / With his mothers kynne the beest of the empire / With Claudius also, that was his oune graũdsir […] Seuerus thus the worthy senatour / Descẽded downe, right heire to Androge{us} / The eldeſt ſoonne of Lud that with the Emperoure / Out of Britayn that went with Iulius / Whiche Senatoure afore ſayd Seuerus / To Britayn came and was intromizate / And with a crowne of golde was coronate.

2. (zoology) Having a crest or a crownlike appendage.
3. (zoology) Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished.
4. (zoology, of a spiral shell) Girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines.

Translations

having or wearing a crown

• Finnish: kruunupäinen

Further reading

• “coronate”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “coronate”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “coronate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “coronate”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Anagrams

• otocrane

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

coronate

1. inflection of coronare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

coronate f pl

1. feminine plural of coronato

Anagrams

• corteano, cotonare, cotonerà

Latin

Verb

corōnāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of corōnō

Spanish

Verb

coronate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of coronar combined with te