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crown

/kˈɹaʊn/KROWN
/kˈɹaʊn/KROWN

Meaninga garland

Common meaning: a ruler's headdress

Other meanings: the top

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√KAR‘curve, or to roll’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 56, p. 732 · scan
  2. Latincorōna‘a garland, crown’
  3. Frenchcorone
  4. Middle Englishcoronesource
  5. Englishcrown‘a ruler's headdress’ · today

crown also in: coronercoronarycoronation

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin corōna ‘a garland, crown’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry corōna, p. 471 · dictionary scan; Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry CORONER, p. 135 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • corōna Latin “a garland, crown”

Related words

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