different between crone vs grone

English

Etymology

From Old French carogne, French charogne (“carrion”). See carrion and crony.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?o?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k???n/
• Rhymes: -??n
• Homophone: crosne

Noun

crone (plural crones)

1. (archaic) An old woman.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:old woman

   • But still the crone was constant to her note.

2. An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman.
3. An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.
4. (obsolete) An old ewe.
   • 1573, Tusser Five Hundred Good Points of Husbandry

     In traveling homeward, buy forty good crones, and fat up the bodies of those seely bones

5. (obsolete) An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.
   • 1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby

     A few old battered crones of office.

Translations

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “crone”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Ceron, Creon, Oncer, necro, necro-, oncer, recon

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch cor?na, from Latin cor?na. Doublet of crune.

Noun

crône f

1. crown, wreath

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• crônen

Descendants

• Dutch: kroon
  • Afrikaans: kroon
  • ? Indonesian: kerun
• Limburgish: kroean

Further reading

• “crone”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “crone (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle English

Noun

crone

1. Alternative form of crane (“crane”)

English

Verb

grone (third-person singular simple present grones, present participle groning, simple past and past participle groned)

1. Obsolete spelling of groan

Anagrams

• Egnor, Goren, Groen, Negro, Norge, Rengo, Rogen, ergon, genro, goner, negro, ornge, reong

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French grain.

Noun

grone

1. Alternative form of greyn

Etymology 2

From Old English gr?nian.

Verb

grone

1. Alternative form of gronen

Etymology 3

A back-formation from gronen.

Noun

grone

1. Alternative form of gron