different between corolla vs quincuncial

English

Etymology

From Latin cor?lla (“small garland, chaplet or wreath”), diminutive of cor?na (“garland, chaplet, wreath”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k???o?l?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?????l?/
• Hyphenation: co?rol?la

Noun

corolla (plural corollas or corollae or corollæ)

1. (botany) An outermost-but-one whorl of a flower, composed of petals, when it is not the same in appearance as the outermost whorl (the calyx); it usually comprises the petal, which may be fused.
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 125:

     Our wet fingers touched and we formed a circle like the corolla of a flower, floating into the silence of the desert dawn with the ancient sun on our bodies.

Related terms

• corolline
• corollate
• corollaceous

Translations

See also

• petal
• perianth
• tepal
• calyx
• sepal

Anagrams

• Carollo

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cor?lla (“small garland, chaplet or wreath”), diminutive of cor?na (“garland, chaplet, wreath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?rol.la/

Noun

corolla f (plural corolle)

1. (botany) corolla

Anagrams

• colarlo
• corallo

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of cor?na (“garland, chaplet, wreath”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ko?ro?l.la/, [k???o?l??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko?rol.la/, [k????l??]

Noun

cor?lla f (genitive cor?llae); first declension

1. A small garland, chaplet or wreath.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• cor?ll?ria
• cor?ll?rium

Related terms

• cor?na
• cor?n?mentum
• cor?n?rius
• cor?n?

Descendants

References

• corolla in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• corolla in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• corolla in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• corolla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• corolla in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• corolla in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

From Latin quincuncialis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kw?n?k?n??l/

Adjective

quincuncial (comparative more quincuncial, superlative most quincuncial)

1. Arranged in a quincunx.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society 2007, p. 169:

     Of this Quincunciall Ordination the Ancients practised much, discoursed little [...].

   • 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1297:

     In architecture the quincunxial shape was considered a sort of housing for the divine power – a battery, if you like, which gathered into itself the divinity as it tried to pour earthward, to earth itself – just like an electrical current does.

2. (botany) Having the leaves of a pentamerous calyx or corolla so imbricated that two are exterior, two are interior, and the other has one edge exterior and one interior.

   quincuncial aestivation

Derived terms

• quincuncially
• quincuncial phyllotaxy

Translations