coronal

English

Etymology 1

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂-der.
Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē)bor.
Latin corōna
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin corōnālisder.
Anglo-Norman coronalbor.
Middle English coronal
English coronal

    From Middle English coronal, from Anglo-Norman coronal, from Latin corōnālis (“related to a crown”), from corōna (“a crown”).

    Pronunciation

    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒɹənəl/, /kəˈɹəʊnəl/
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    • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɔɹənəl/, /ˈkɑɹənəl/, /kəˈɹoʊnəl/, enPR: kŏr'ə-nəl, kə-rōn'əl

    Adjective

    coronal (comparative more coronal, superlative most coronal)

    1. Relating to a crown or coronation.
    2. (astronomy) Relating to the corona of a star.
      • 1878, William de Wiveleslie Abney, A Treatise on Photography:
        The coronal light during the eclipse is faint.
      • 2013 July 28, Megan Gannon, “Spacecraft Sees Giant 'Hole' In the Sun”, in news.yahoo.com‎[1], archived from the original on 29 January 2024:
        Coronal holes are darker, cooler regions of the sun's atmosphere, or corona, containing little solar material. In these gaps, magnetic field lines whip out into the solar wind rather than looping back to the sun's surface. Coronal holes can affect space weather, as they send solar particles streaming off the sun about three times faster than the slower wind unleashed elsewhere from the sun's atmosphere, according to a description from NASA.
    3. (botany) Relating to the corona of a flower.
    4. (linguistics, phonetics) Relating to a sound made with the tip or blade of the tongue.
    5. (anatomy) Relating to the coronal plane that divides a body into dorsal (back) and ventral (front).
    6. (dentistry) Relating to the external (supragingival) portion of the tooth.
    7. (urology) Relating to the corona glandis.
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    Noun

    coronal (plural coronals)

    1. A crown or coronet.
      • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter V, in Le Morte Darthur, book V:
        Therfore aryse and dresse the thow gloton / For this day shall thou dye of my hand / Thenne the gloton anone starte vp and tooke a grete clubbe in his hand / and smote at the kynge that his coronal fylle to the erthe
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      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
        That shall embellish more your beautie bright, / And crowne your heades with heavenly coronall, / Such as the Angels weare before Gods tribunall!
    2. A wreath or garland of flowers.
      • 1862, Edward McDermott, The Popular Guide to the International Exhibition of 1862, Cambridge University Press, published 2014:
        The bowl is in the Renaissance style, with winged figures supporting coronals and wreaths of flowers, and on the edge is an emblematic figure pouring out water.
      • 1911, George Sterling, Duandon‎[2]:
        Where, darker for the sky's unclouded dome, The waves took sudden coronals of foam
    3. The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronae or garlands.
      • 1947, Hans Grüneberg, Animal Genetics and Medicine, page 190:
        Oxycephaly results from the fusion of both coronal sutures and of the sagittal suture; trigonocephaly from a fusion of both coronals; […]
    5. (phonetics) A consonant produced with the tip or blade of the tongue.
      • 2011, Mirco Ghini, Asymmetries in the Phonology of Miogliola, page 34:
        This structurally accounts for a number of phenomena that treat coronals asymetrically with respect to other places of articulation.
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    Etymology 2

    Noun

    coronal (plural coronals)

    1. Alternative form of cronel (“lance-part”).
      • 1848, The Archaeological Journal, page 227:
        By Mr. Neville's kindness an accurate drawing of this relic has been obtained, and, considering the circumstances of its discovery, it has been conjectured that it may have been the coronal of a tilting lance.
      • 1864, Central Committee of the British Archaeological Association for the Encouragement and Prosecution of Researches into the Arts and Monuments of the Early and Middle Ages, The Archaeological Journal, page 177:
        […] the proper stroke was to knock off the salade, or bear it off in triumph on the three-pronged coronal of the lance.
      • 1908, Bertram Edward Sargeaunt, Weapons: A Brief Discourse on Hand-weapons Other Than Fire-arms, page 26:
        The tilting lance differed from a war lance in that it possessed a coronal instead of a point. The coronal consisted of […]

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    coronal (plural coronals)

    1. Obsolete form of colonel.

    Anagrams

    French

    Etymology

    From Latin corōnālis, from corōna (“a crown”).

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    coronal (feminine coronale, masculine plural coronaux, feminine plural coronales)

    1. (anatomy, astronomy, botany, phonetics) coronal

    Further reading

    Middle English

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂-der.
    Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē)bor.
    Latin corōna
    Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
    Proto-Indo-European *-is
    Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
    Proto-Italic *-ālis
    Latin -ālis
    Latin corōnālisder.
    Anglo-Norman coronalbor.
    Middle English coronal

      From Anglo-Norman coronal, from Latin corōnālis; equivalent to coroune +‎ -al.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /kɔruˈnal/, /ˈkɔrunal/, /ˈkɔr(ə)nal/, /ˈkruːnal/

      Noun

      coronal (plural coronales)

      1. A tiara; a crown lacking arches or covering.
      2. A crowned helmet.
      3. A spearhead; the top of a spear.
      4. (rare) A nimbus or halo.
      5. (rare) The top of a column.

      Descendants

      • English: coronal (coronel, cronel)

      References

      Portuguese

      Pronunciation

      • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ko.ɾoˈnaw/ [ko.ɾoˈnaʊ̯]
       
      • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ku.ɾuˈnal/ [ku.ɾuˈnaɫ]
        • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ku.ɾuˈna.li/

      • Rhymes: -al, -aw
      • Hyphenation: co‧ro‧nal

      Adjective

      coronal m or f (plural coronais)

      1. coronal (relating to a crown or coronation)
        1. (astronomy) (relating to the corona of a star)
        2. (phonetics) (relating to a sound made with the tip or blade of tongue)

      Noun

      coronal m (plural coronais)

      1. (anatomy) coronal (the frontal bone)
      2. (phonetics) coronal (consonant produced with tip or blade of tongue)

      Further reading

      Romanian

      Etymology

      Borrowed from French coronal, from Latin coronalis. By surface analysis, coroană +‎ -al.

      Adjective

      coronal m or n (feminine singular coronală, masculine plural coronali, feminine/neuter plural coronale)

      1. coronal

      Declension

      Declension of coronal
      singular plural
      masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
      nominative-
      accusative       		indefinite coronal coronală coronali coronale
      definite coronalul coronala coronalii coronalele
      genitive-
      dative       		indefinite coronal coronale coronali coronale
      definite coronalului coronalei coronalilor coronalelor

      Spanish

      Etymology

      Etymology tree
      Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂-der.
      Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē)bor.
      Latin corōna
      Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
      Proto-Indo-European *-is
      Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
      Proto-Italic *-ālis
      Latin -ālis
      Latin coronālisder.
      Spanish coronal

        Derived from Latin coronālis.

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): /koɾoˈnal/ [ko.ɾoˈnal]
        • Rhymes: -al
        • Syllabification: co‧ro‧nal

        Adjective

        coronal m or f (masculine and feminine plural coronales)

        1. (anatomy) coronal
        2. (phonetics) coronal (relating to a sound produced with the tip or blade of the tongue)

        Noun

        coronal f (plural coronales)

        1. (phonetics) coronal (a consonant produced with the tip or blade of the tongue)

        Further reading

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