coronis

English

Etymology

From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin corōnis, from the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek κορωνίς (korōnís, “crasis coronis”, “editorial coronis”); cognate with the French coronis.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kŏrōʹnĭs, IPA^(key): /kɒˈɹəʊnɪs/,

Noun

coronis (plural coronides)

1. A device, curved stroke, or flourish formed with a pen, coming at the end of a book or chapter; a colophon. For example: ⸎, ۞.
2. (figuratively, obsolete, rare) A thing’s conclusion; its end.
   • 1592–1670: Bishop John Hacket, Scrinia reserata: a Memorial offer’d to the great Deservings of John Williams, D.D., Archbishop of York, volume 2, page 38

     The coronis of this matter is thus ; some bad ones in this family were punish’d strictly, all rebuk’d, not all amended.

3. (Ancient Greek grammar) A character similar to an apostrophe or the smooth breathing written atop or next to a non–word-initial vowel retained from the second word which formed a contraction resulting from crasis; see the usage note.

Usage notes

• Generally, the Ancient Greek breathings are only written atop initial letters (the consonant rho, initial vowels, and the second vowels of word-initial diphthongs). The coronis is one of only two exceptions to this rule; the other is the case of the double-rho, which is written as ῤῥ.

See also

• colophon
• vignette

Anagrams

• conisor, corinos, sonoric

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Catalan

Verb

coronis

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French

Noun

coronis m (plural coronis)

1. tree grayling (butterfly )

Noun

coronis f (plural coronis)

1. coronis (diacritic)

Synonyms

• (butterfly): faune

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Friulian

Noun

coronis

1. plural of corone

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Latin

Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek κορωνίς (korōnís, “crasis coronis”, “editorial coronis”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koˈroː.nis/, [kɔˈroːnɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈro.nis/, [koˈrɔːnis]

Noun

corōnis f (genitive corōnidis); third declension

1. coronis, colophon
2. The end of a book or chapter.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	corōnis	corōnidēs
genitive	corōnidis	corōnidum
dative	corōnidī	corōnidibus
accusative	corōnidem	corōnidēs
ablative	corōnide	corōnidibus
vocative	corōnis	corōnidēs

Descendants

• English: coronis
• French: coronis
• Italian: coronide

Etymology 2

Inflected form of corōna (“garland, wreath; crown”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koˈroː.niːs/, [kɔˈroːniːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈro.nis/, [koˈrɔːnis]

Noun

(deprecated template usage) corōnīs

1. dative plural of corōna
2. ablative plural of corōna

References

• “coronis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coronis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “coronis”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “coronis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “coronis”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “coronis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin