coronis

== English == === Etymology === From the Latin corōnis, from the Ancient Greek κορωνίς (korōnís, “crasis coronis”, “editorial coronis”); cognate with the French coronis. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kŏrōʹnĭs, IPA(key): /kɒˈɹəʊnɪs/, (General American) IPA(key): /kəˈɹoʊ.nɪs/ Rhymes: -əʊnɪs === Noun === coronis (plural coronides) (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: ⸎, ۞. (figuratively, obsolete, rare) The conclusion of something; the end of something. 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. (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 (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 === === Anagrams === conisor, corinos, cosinor, sonoric == Catalan == === Verb === coronis second-person singular present subjunctive of coronar == French == === Noun === coronis m (invariable) tree grayling (butterfly Hipparchia statilinus) === Noun === coronis f (invariable) coronis (diacritic) ==== Synonyms ==== (butterfly): faune == Friulian == === Noun === coronis plural of corone == Latin == === Etymology 1 === From the Ancient Greek κορωνίς (korōnís, “crasis coronis”, “editorial coronis”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔˈroː.nɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [koˈrɔː.nis] ==== Noun ==== corōnis f (genitive corōnidis); third declension coronis, colophon The end of a book or chapter. ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun. ===== Descendants ===== → English: coronis → French: coronis → Italian: coronide === Etymology 2 === Inflected form of corōna (“garland, wreath; crown”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔˈroː.niːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [koˈrɔː.nis] ==== Noun ==== corōnīs 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[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