Corona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: All ultimately from Latin corōna (“crown”).
* (Corona, California): From Spanish corona (“crown, wreath”), chosen to play upon a unique feature of the city, the one-mile diameter drive that circled the center of the town.
* (Corona, New Mexico):
* (Corona, South Dakota): May be a transfer from Corona, Queens.
* (Corona, Queens): One theory is that it was renamed by music producer Benjamin W. Hitchcock, a developer who renamed the area in 1872 and sold off land for residential development. Another theory is that real estate developer Thomas Waite Howard, who became the first postmaster in 1872, petitioned to have the post office name changed to Corona in 1870, suggesting that it was the “crown of Queens County”. A third theory is that it is derived from the crown used as an emblem by the Crown Building Company, which is said to have developed the area. The Italian immigrants who moved into the new housing stock referred to the neighborhood by Italian corona or Spanish corona (“crown”).
* (surname): 1. From Spanish corona and Italian corona (“crown”), perhaps applied as a habitational name for someone who lived in a house with this sign, or as a nickname for someone who had a tonsure in fulfillment of a religious vow or who had influence and power. 2. From Italian Corona, a female given name, of the same derivation.
* (given name): From Late Latin Corōna, meaning “crown”.
* (beer): From Spanish corona (“crown”).
* (coronavirus): Clipping of coronavirus, from corona + virus.
* (cigar): From Spanish La Corona (literally “The Crown”), the name of a brand.
Senses: glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Walker County, Alabama.
examples: text: LuLaRoe is laying off 167 employees at a warehouse in Corona, California, on December 20, according to a company filing. […] LuLaRoe confirmed the closing to Business Insider and said it will maintain separate offices in Corona that serve as its headquarters.
ref: 2019 October 28, Hayley Peterson, “LuLaRoe plans to lay off 167 warehouse workers amid legal battle”, in Business Insider:
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in Riverside County, California.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Carlton County, Minnesota.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Oregon County, Missouri.
examples: text: We passed through the little town of Corona, New Mexico. It didn’t look any different than in previous years but I had to wonder if its name had caused it any repercussions. I could have stopped and filled up the car there but … / Next year, I promise.
ref: 2020 April 19, Bill Moor, “Sports legends and current thoughts”, in South Bend Tribune:
glosses: A place in the United States:
A village in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A neighborhood of the borough of Queens in New York City, New York.
examples: text: But it came to pass that I admitted to a certain someone that I reside on the west side of Sioux City, not with my parents in Corona, South Dakota. I was told to get an Iowa license post haste.
ref: 2018 December 27, Mason Dockter, “A South Dakota man reflects on getting his Iowa license”, in Sioux City Journal:
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Roberts County, South Dakota.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Tipton County, Tennessee, on the Arkansas side of the Mississippi.
examples: text: “I’m sure their sales are going to be high,” Mayor Daniel Corona told FOX 13 after the vote, adding: “Pun not intended.” / Corona has argued that recreational marijuana would benefit the community, bringing with it 38 jobs and more visitors.
ref: 2018 November 20, “‘Sales are going to be high’: West Wendover approves the sale of recreational marijuana”, in The Salt Lake Tribune:
glosses: A surname from Spanish.
examples: text: “Scott—Corona Scott.” She stretched to shake his hand across the narrow aisle. “But my friends call me Rona—Corona sounds a bit uppish, so I've been told.” / “Gordon C. McCormick—Gordy,” he introduced himself, giving her another grin.
ref: 2011, M. R. Tighe, Judgment on Tartarus, Tucson, AZ: Wheatmark, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: A female given name.
examples: text: Tom Hanks has sent a letter and a Corona brand typewriter to an Australian boy who wrote to him about being bullied about his name, Corona. / Corona De Vries, an eight-year-old from the Gold Coast in Queensland, wrote to the Hollywood star after the actor and his wife, Rita Wilson, spent more than two weeks in quarantine after testing positive for Covid-19.
ref: 2020 April 24, “Tom Hanks pens heartfelt letter to bullied Australian boy named Corona”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A male given name.