different between coroner vs lawyer

English

Etymology

From Middle English coroner, from Old French curuner, from Medieval Latin custos placitorum coronae (“guardian of the crown's pleas”). The function was originally to protect royal properties.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?.??.n?(?)/
• Rhymes: -???n?(?)

Noun

coroner (plural coroners)

1. A public official who presides over an inquest into unnatural deaths, cases of treasure trove, and debris from shipwrecks.
2. (Canada, US) A medical doctor who performs autopsies and determines time and cause of death from a scientific standpoint.
3. The administrative head of a sheading.

Hyponyms

• (who presides over an inquest): medical examiner, ME (if he or she performs autopsies)

Synonyms

• autopsier (rare)

Translations

Further reading

• coroner on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• crooner

French

Noun

coroner m (plural coroners)

1. coroner (in English-speaking countries)

Latin

Verb

cor?ner

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of cor?n?

Middle English

Alternative forms

• corowner, crouner, crowner, coronour, coronier, corounere

Etymology

From Old French curuner; equivalent to coroune +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku?ru?ne?r/, /?kru?ne?r/, /kuru?ne?r/, /?kurun?r/

Noun

coroner (plural coroners)

1. A (medieval) coroner (a royal officer who helps administer law and the courts)

Descendants

• English: coroner (obsolete crowner)
• Scots: crownar (obsolete)

References

• “cor?un???r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-20.

Old French

Alternative forms

• coroner
• courouner
• corouner

Etymology

From Latin cor?n?re, present active infinitive of cor?n? (“I crown”).

Verb

coroner

1. to crown (make into a monarch)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• French: couronner

English

Alternative forms

• lawer (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English lawier, lawyer, lawer, equivalent to law +? -yer.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??j?(?)/, /?l??.?(?)/
• (US, Northern and Western) IPA^(key): /?l??.?/
• (US, Southern) IPA^(key): /?l?.j?/
• Rhymes: -??.?, -??.?(?), -???(?)
• Hyphenation: law?yer

Noun

lawyer (plural lawyers)

1. A professional person qualified (as by a law degree or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, i.e. represent parties in lawsuits or trials and give legal advice.

   • His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; […].

   A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade. - aphorism often credited to Abraham Lincoln, but without attestation

2. (by extension) A legal layman who argues points of law.
3. (Britain, colloquial) The burbot.
4. (Britain, dialect, botany) The stem of a bramble.
5. Any of various plants. This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Synonyms

• advocate
• attorney
• counselor

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

lawyer (third-person singular simple present lawyers, present participle lawyering, simple past and past participle lawyered)

1. (informal, intransitive) To practice law.
2. (intransitive) To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
3. (intransitive) To make legalistic arguments.
4. (informal, transitive) To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something.

   You've been lawyered!

Related terms

• lawyer up

See also

• solicitor
• barrister

References

Anagrams

• Rawley, warely, yawler

Middle English

Noun

lawyer

1. Alternative form of lawier