English

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)^[1] A thing’s conclusion; its end.^[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; the other is the case of the double-rho, which is written as ῤῥ.

See also

• colophon
• vignette

References

1. 1 2 3 4 5 “‖coronis” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]

Anagrams

• corinos

Catalan

Verb

coronis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive form 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) IPA^(key): /koˈroː.nis/, [kɔˈroː.nɪs]

Noun

corōnis f ‎(genitive corōnidis); third declension

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

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

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

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /koˈroː.niːs/

Noun

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “coronis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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 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