different between contraction vs coronis

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French contraction, from Latin contracti?. Equivalent to contract +? -ion

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?n?t?æk.??n/, /k?n?t?æk.??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k?n?t?æk.??n/
• Rhymes: -æk??n

Noun

contraction (countable and uncountable, plural contractions)

1. A reversible reduction in size.
2. (economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth.

   The country's economic contraction was caused by high oil prices.

3. (biology) A shortening of a muscle during its use.
4. (medicine) A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
5. (linguistics) A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.

   In English didn't, that's, and wanna, the endings -n't, -'s, and -a arose by contraction.

6. (English orthography) A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.

   "Don't" is a contraction of "do not."

7. A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
8. (medicine) The process of contracting a disease.
9. (phonetics) Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.
10. The acquisition of something, generally negative.

    Our contraction of debt in this quarter has reduced our ability to attract investors.

11. (medicine) A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.

Antonyms

• expansion
• dilatation

Derived terms

Related terms

• contract
• contractation
• contractive
• haustral contraction

Translations

See also

• omission
• Category:English contractions
• contraction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin contractio, contractionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.t?ak.sj??/

Noun

contraction f (plural contractions)

1. contraction

Related terms

• contracter
• contrat

English

Etymology

From the Latin cor?nis, from the Ancient Greek ??????? (kor?nís, “crasis coronis”, “editorial coronis”); cognate with the French coronis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: k?r??n?s, IPA^(key): /k?????n?s/,

Noun

coronis (plural coronides)

1. A device, curved stroke, or flourish formed with a pen, coming at the end of a book or chapter; a colophon. For example: ?, ?.
2. (figuratively, obsolete, rare) A thing’s conclusion; its end.
   • 1592–1670: Bishop John Hacket, Scrinia reserata: a Memorial offer’d to the great Deservings of John Williams, D.D., Archbishop of York, volume 2, page 38

     The coronis of this matter is thus?;?some bad ones in this family were punish’d strictly, all rebuk’d, not all amended.

3. (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 ??.

See also

• colophon
• vignette

References

Anagrams

• conisor, corinos, cosinor, sonoric

Catalan

Verb

coronis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive form of coronar

French

Noun

coronis m (plural coronis)

1. tree grayling (butterfly Hipparchia statilinus)

Noun

coronis f (plural coronis)

1. coronis (diacritic)

Synonyms

• (butterfly): faune

Friulian

Noun

coronis

1. plural of corone

Latin

Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek ??????? (kor?nís, “crasis coronis”, “editorial coronis”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ko?ro?.nis/, [k???o?n?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko?ro.nis/, [k?????nis]

Noun

cor?nis f (genitive cor?nidis); third declension

1. coronis, colophon
2. The end of a book or chapter.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• English: coronis
• French: coronis
• Italian: coronide

Etymology 2

Inflected form of cor?na (“garland, wreath; crown”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ko?ro?.ni?s/, [k???o?ni?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko?ro.nis/, [k?????nis]

Noun

cor?n?s

1. dative plural of cor?na
2. ablative plural of cor?na

References

• coronis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coronis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• coronis in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• coronis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• coronis in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• coronis in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin