coronis

See also: Coronis

English

Etymology

From the Latin corōnis, from the Ancient Greek κορωνίς (korōnís, “crasis coronis”, “editorial coronis”); cognate with the French coronis.^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kŏrōʹnĭs, IPA^(key): /kɒˈɹəʊnɪs/,^[1]

Noun

coronis (plural coronides)

1. (printing, publishing) 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)^[1] The conclusion of something; the end of something.^[1]
   • 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)^[1] 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 (appearing for example over the second letter of the second word of καλός κἀγαθός (kalós kagathós)); the other is the case of the double-rho, which is written as ῤῥ.

See also

• colophon
• vignette

References

1. “‖coronis” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]

Anagrams

• conisor, corinos, cosinor, sonoric

Catalan

Verb

coronis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of coronar

French

Noun

coronis m (plural coronis)

1. tree grayling (butterfly Hipparchia statilinus)

Noun

coronis f (plural coronis)

1. coronis (diacritic)

Synonyms

• (butterfly): faune

Friulian

Noun

coronis

1. plural of corone

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.

Case	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

corōnīs

1. dative/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
• “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