κορώνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). See also κορωνός (korōnós, “curved, bent”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

κορώνη • (korṓnē) f (genitive κορώνης); first declension

  1. a type of sea-bird, perhaps shearwater
  2. crow
  3. anything curved, especially a door handle
  4. the tip of a bow, on which the string is hooked
  5. the curved stern of a ship, especially its crown (ornamental top)
  6. the tip of a plow-beam, upon which the yoke was attached
  7. apophysis (the part of a bone where the tendon is attached)
  8. end, tip, point

Inflection
First declension of ἡ κορώνη; τῆς κορώνης (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ κορώνη
hē korṓnē		 τὼ κορώνᾱ
tṑ korṓnā		 αἱ κορῶναι
hai korônai
Genitive τῆς κορώνης
tês korṓnēs		 τοῖν κορώναιν
toîn korṓnain		 τῶν κορωνῶν
tôn korōnôn
Dative τῇ κορώνῃ
têi korṓnēi		 τοῖν κορώναιν
toîn korṓnain		 ταῖς κορώναις
taîs korṓnais
Accusative τὴν κορώνην
tḕn korṓnēn		 τὼ κορώνᾱ
tṑ korṓnā		 τᾱ̀ς κορώνᾱς
tā̀s korṓnās
Vocative κορώνη
korṓnē		 κορώνᾱ
korṓnā		 κορῶναι
korônai
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • → Latin: corōna (see there for further descendants)

Further reading
  • κορώνη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • κορώνη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • κορώνη in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • κορώνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • κορώνη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
    • crow idem, page 186.
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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