κορώνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). See also κορωνός (korōnós, “curved, bent”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ko.rɔ̌ː.nɛː/ → /koˈro.ni/ → /koˈro.ni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ko.rɔ̌ː.nɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /koˈro.ne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /koˈro.ni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /koˈro.ni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /koˈro.ni/

Noun

κορώνη • (korṓnē) f (genitive κορώνης); first declension

1. a type of sea-bird, perhaps shearwater
2. crow
3. anything curved, especially a door handle
4. the tip of a bow, on which the string is hooked
5. the curved stern of a ship, especially its crown (ornamental top)
6. the tip of a plow-beam, upon which the yoke was attached
7. coronoid process of the ulna, apophysis (the part of a bone where the tendon is attached)
8. end, tip, point
9. nightingale
10. a type of crown
11. culmination of something, especially of a festival

Inflection

First declension of ἡ κορώνη; τῆς κορώνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κορώνη hē korṓnē	τὼ κορώνᾱ tṑ korṓnā	αἱ κορῶναι hai korônai
Genitive	τῆς κορώνης tês korṓnēs	τοῖν κορώναιν toîn korṓnain	τῶν κορωνῶν tôn korōnôn
Dative	τῇ κορώνῃ têi korṓnēi	τοῖν κορώναιν toîn korṓnain	ταῖς κορώναις taîs korṓnais
Accusative	τὴν κορώνην tḕn korṓnēn	τὼ κορώνᾱ tṑ korṓnā	τᾱ̀ς κορώνᾱς tā̀s korṓnās
Vocative	κορώνη korṓnē	κορώνᾱ korṓnā	κορῶναι korônai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: κουρούνα (kouroúna)
• → Greek: κορώνα (koróna)
• → Latin: corōna (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “κορώνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κορώνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κορώνη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κορώνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κορώνη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • crow idem, page 186.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN