different between corollary vs correspondent

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Late Latin cor?ll?rium (“money paid for a garland; gift, gratuity, something extra; consequence, deduction”), from cor?lla (“small garland”), diminutive of cor?na (“crown”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k????l??i/, /?k???l??i/
• (US) enPR: kôr'?l?r?, IPA^(key): /?k????l??i/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /k???o??l??i/

Noun

corollary (plural corollaries)

1. Something given beyond what is actually due; something added or superfluous.
2. Something which occurs a fortiori, as a result of another effort without significant additional effort.

   Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefront.

3. (mathematics, logic) A proposition which follows easily from the proof of another proposition.

   We have proven that this set is finite and well ordered; as a corollary, we now know that there is an order-preserving map from it to the natural numbers.

Translations

Adjective

corollary (not comparable)

1. Occurring as a natural consequence or result; attendant; consequential.
2. (rare) Forming a proposition that follows from one already proved.

Further reading

• corollary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• corollary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Latin, via Middle French or directly, from Medieval Latin correspond?ns, present participle of corresponde?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k????sp?nd?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k????sp?nd?nt/

Adjective

correspondent (comparative more correspondent, superlative most correspondent)

1. Corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law.
2. (with to or with) Conforming; obedient.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2

     ARIEL: Pardon, master: / I will be correspondent to command, / And do my spriting gently.

Translations

Noun

correspondent (plural correspondents)

1. Someone who or something which corresponds.
2. Someone who communicates with another person, or a publication, by writing.
3. A journalist who sends reports back to a newspaper or radio or television station from a distant or overseas location.

Hyponyms

• stringer

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• corespondent
• Correspondent in Wikipedia

References

• correspondent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Dutch

Alternative forms

• korrespondent (before 1996)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French correspondant, correspondent, from Latin correspondens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?.r?s.p?n?d?nt/, /?k?.r?.sp?n?d?nt/
• Hyphenation: cor?res?pon?dent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

correspondent m (plural correspondenten, diminutive correspondentje n, feminine correspondente)

1. A correspondent, in particular a reporter.

Related terms

• correspondentie
• corresponderen

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.??s.p??d/

Verb

correspondent

1. third-person plural present indicative of correspondre
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of correspondre

Latin

Verb

correspondent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of corresponde?

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

correspondent m (plural correspondents, feminine correspondente)

1. (Jersey) correspondent