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CORONIS
Etymology
Noun
coronis (plural coronides)
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) A thing’s conclusion; its end.
(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; the other is the case of the double-rho, which is written as .
Anagrams
• conisor, corinos, sonoric
Etymology
Proper noun
Coronis (plural er-noun)
(mythology) Any of several figures from Greek mythology
Anagrams
• conisor, corinos, sonoric
Source: Wiktionary
Co*ro"nis (k-r"ns), n. Etym: [Gr. Cornice.]
1. In Greek grammar, a sign ['] sometimes placed over a contracted syllable. W. W. Goodwin.
2. The curved line or flourish at the end of a book or chapter; hence, the end. [R.] Bp. Hacket.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(adverb) at the present or from now on; usually used with a negative; “Alice doesn’t live here anymore”; “the children promised not to quarrel any more”
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