# 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: /kɒˈɹəʊnɪs/,

### 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

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

### Anagrams

* conisor, corinos, cosinor, sonoric

## Catalan
### Verb

coronis
* second-person singular present subjunctive of coronar

## French
### Noun

coronis m (plural coronis)
* tree grayling (butterfly Hipparchia statilinus)

### Noun

coronis f (plural coronis)
* 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: /koˈroː.nis/, [kɔˈroːnɪs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /koˈro.nis/, [koˈrɔːnis]

#### Noun

corōnis f (genitive corōnidis); third declension
* coronis, colophon
* 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: /koˈroː.niːs/, [kɔˈroːniːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /koˈro.nis/, [koˈrɔːnis]

#### 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
* “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