# coronate
## English
### Pronunciation

    (adjective):
* (UK) IPA: /ˈkɒɹənət/, /ˈkɒɹəˌneɪt/
* (US) IPA: /ˈkɔɹənɪt/, /ˈkɔɹəˌneɪt/
    (verb):
* (UK) IPA: /ˈkɒɹəˌneɪt/
* (US) IPA: /ˈkɔɹəˌneɪt/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin corōnātus (“crowned”), past perfect participle of corōnō (“I crown”), from corōna (“crown”).

#### Verb

coronate (third-person singular simple present coronates, present participle coronating, simple past and past participle coronated)
* (rare) To crown (a sovereign or champion).
** 1657, Tomlinson, translating Jean de Renou's A Medicinal Dispensatory, page 475:
    […] and instead of Coronating your deserved Worth […]
** 1891, Virgil Chittenden Hart, The Temple and the Sage, page 65:The whole field of literature has freely surrendered its classic gems to coronate him the intellectual king.
** 2005, Telegraph India‎:Tribals defy custom, bow to queen - Great Andamanese gear up to coronate first woman
** 2023, USA Today
    On a soggy London day in June 1953, a bright-eyed 27-year-old married mother named Elizabeth was coronated as queen of England.

##### Usage notes

* Most speakers prefer crown.

##### Derived terms

* decoronate
* recoronate

##### Related terms

* coronation
* corona
* crown

##### Translations
#### Adjective

coronate (not comparable)
* (zoology) Having a crest or a crownlike appendage.
* (zoology) Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished.
* (zoology, of a spiral shell) Girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines.

##### Derived terms

* amphicoronate
* semicoronate

### Etymology 2

From Middle English coronate, from Latin corōnātus.

#### Adjective

coronate (not comparable)
* Having or wearing a crown; crowned.
** 1513, Henry Bradshaw, The Holy Lyfe and History of Saynt Werburge, page 181:The duke of Normandy / William conquerour […] Was coronate at London / […]
** 1464 (originally written); 1543 (rewritten), John Hardyng, The Chronicle of Ihon Hardyng in Metre, frõ the First Begynnyng of Englãde, vnto y$^t$ Reigne of Edwarde y$^e$ Fourth Where He Made an End of His Chronicle. And from y$^t$ Tyme Is Added with a Cõtinuacion of the Storie in Prose to This Our Tyme, Now First Emprinted, Gathered out of Diuerse and Sondrie Autours of Moste Certain Knowelage & Substanciall Credit, y$^t$ Either in Latin or Els in Our Mother Toungue Haue Writen of y$^e$ Affaires of Englande., London: In officina Richardi Graftoni:Maryus his ſoonne was then intronizate / And ſette on high in trone of maieſtie / With croune of golde full royally coronate / As worthy was vnto his royalte / Who nouriſhed was at Rome in his inuente / With his mothers kynne the beest of the empire / With Claudius also, that was his oune graũdsir […] Seuerus thus the worthy senatour / Descẽded downe, right heire to Androge{us} / The eldeſt ſoonne of Lud that with the Emperoure / Out of Britayn that went with Iulius / Whiche Senatoure afore ſayd Seuerus / To Britayn came and was intromizate / And with a crowne of golde was coronate.

##### Related terms

* incoronate

##### Translations
### References

* ↑ “coronate, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
* ↑ “coronate, adj.$^2$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
* ↑ “coronate, adj.$^1$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

### Further reading

* “coronate”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
* “coronate”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
* “coronate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “coronate”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

### Anagrams

* otocrane

## Italian
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

coronate
* inflection of coronare:
** second-person plural present indicative
** second-person plural imperative

### Etymology 2
#### Participle

coronate f pl
* feminine plural of coronato

### Anagrams

* corteano, cotonare, cotonerà

## Latin
### Verb

corōnāte
* second-person plural present active imperative of corōnō

## Spanish
### Verb

coronate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of coronar combined with te