different between halo vs corona

English

Etymology

From Latin hal?s, from Ancient Greek ???? (hál?s, “disk of the sun or moon; ring of light around the sun or moon; threshing floor with its surrounding threshold; disk of a shield”); itself of unknown origin, see ????? and ??????. Used in English since 1563, sense of light around someone’s head since 1646.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?he?l??/
• (US) enPR: h??l?, IPA^(key): /?he?lo?/
• Rhymes: -e?l??

Noun

halo (plural halos or haloes)

1. A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.
2. (astronomy) A cloud of gas and other matter surrounding and captured by the gravitational field of a large diffuse astronomical object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies.
3. Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs.
4. (religion) nimbus, a luminous disc, often of gold, around or over the heads of saints, etc., in religious paintings.
5. The metaphorical aura of glory, veneration or sentiment which surrounds an idealized entity.
6. (advertising) The bias caused by the halo effect.
   • 2016, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, ?Health and Medicine Division, ?Food and Nutrition Board, Food Literacy: How Do Communications and Marketing Impact Consumer Knowledge, Skills, and Behavior? (page 51)

     In both cases, they found that […] there was a halo effect (e.g., when a "low cholesterol" claim was made, consumers perceived other nutrients, such as fat, also to be at low levels when they were actually high). Andrews reported that these misleading halos were reduced only when the claims were accompanied by an evaluative disclosure […]

7. (art, religion, iconography) a circular annulus ring, frequently luminous, often golden, floating above the head
8. (medicine) A circular brace used to keep the head and neck in position.
9. (motor racing) A rollbar placed in front of the driver, used to protect the cockpit of a open cockpit racecar.
10. (automotive) Short for halo headlight.

Synonyms

• (luminous disc around head of saints in paintings): aureole, nimbus

Derived terms

• halo effect
• halo nucleus
• neutron halo
• nuclear halo
• proton halo

Translations

Verb

halo (third-person singular simple present haloes, present participle haloing, simple past and past participle haloed)

1. (transitive) To encircle with a halo.

   Synonym: inaureole

Related terms

• halation

Translations

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “halo”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• hola

Bikol Central

Verb

halo (hálo)

1. to hush, to make or become quiet

Noun

halo (hàlo)

1. a pestle

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sal? (“filth, dirt”)

Noun

halo m

1. saliva

References

• Matasovi?, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ?ISBN, pages 319
• Revue celtique. (1888). France: F. Vieweg., p 374

Catalan

Verb

halo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of halar

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• hawo

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ha?lo

Etymology

For the second noun sense, the monitor lizard's timidity likened to cowardice.

Noun

halo

1. a monitor lizard
2. (historical) a cowardly tattooed man

Verb

halo

1. to mingle

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??alo]
• Hyphenation: ha?lo

Etymology 1

From Latin halos.

Noun

halo n

1. halo (atmospheric phenomenon)

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

halo

1. vocative singular of hala

Further reading

• halo in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• halo in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

Medieval Latin, from Latin halos, from Ancient Greek ???? (hál?s, “disk of the sun or moon”).

Noun

halo c (definite singular haloen, indefinite plural haloer, definite plural haloerne)

1. halo (atmospheric phenomenon)

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin halos, from Ancient Greek ???? (hál?s, “disk of the sun or moon, ring of light around the sun or moon; threshing floor; disk of a shield”), itself of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?.lo?/

Noun

halo m (plural halo's, diminutive halootje n)

1. halo (atmospheric phenomenon).
2. Similar visual effect resulting from undesirable, roughly circular spots on an imperfectly developed photograph.

References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

Anagrams

• hola

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from English hall, German Halle, French halle, Polish hala.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?halo/
• Hyphenation: ha?lo
• Rhymes: -alo

Noun

halo (accusative singular halon, plural haloj, accusative plural halojn)

1. hall, very large room

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?lo/, [?h?lo?]
• Rhymes: -?lo
• Syllabification: ha?lo

Etymology 1

Verb

halo

1. Indicative present connegative form of halkoa.
2. Second-person singular imperative present form of halkoa.
3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of halkoa.

Etymology 2

From English halo, from Latin hal?s, from Ancient Greek ???? (hál?s).

Noun

halo

1. halo

Declension

Derived terms

• haloilmiö

Anagrams

• Alho, alho, laho

French

Etymology

From Latin halos, from Ancient Greek ???? (hál?s, “disk of the sun or moon, ring of light around the sun or moon; threshing floor; disk of a shield”), itself of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /a.lo/

Noun

halo m (plural halos)

1. Halo (atmospheric phenomenon)
2. Similar visual effect resulting from undesirable, roughly circular spots on an imperfectly developed photograph.

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Further reading

• “halo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• hola, holà

Galician

Verb

halo

1. first-person singular present indicative of halar

Ido

Noun

halo (plural hali)

1. hall, very large room

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch hallo. Compare Malay helo.

Interjection

halo

1. hello

Latin

Etymology

Possibly a denominative verb from Proto-Indo-European *h?enh?-s-lo- (with spurious h), from *h?enh?- (“to breathe”), whence animus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ha?.lo?/, [?hä???o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.lo/, [???l?]

Verb

h?l? (present infinitive h?l?re, perfect active h?l?v?, supine h?l?tum); first conjugation

1. breathe
2. emit, exhale, release (gas or fragrance)
3. be fragrant
   • P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid, Book I, ll. 416 ff.

     Ipsa Paphum sublimis abit sedesque revisit
     Laeta suas ubi templum illi centumque Sabaeo???
     Ture calent arae sertisque recentibus halant

     [Venus] goes flying back to Paphos and sees happily again her seat
     Where there is a temple to her and a hundred altars
     That warmly glow with Sheban incense and are perfumed by fresh wreaths.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• adh?l?
• anh?lo
• exh?l?
• inh?l?
• redh?l?

Synonyms

• sp?r?, feo

Descendants

• Old French: haler
  • French: haleter

References

• halo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• halo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• halo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

halo m (definite singular haloen, indefinite plural haloer, definite plural haloene)

1. halo (atmospheric phenomenon)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

halo m (definite singular haloen, indefinite plural haloar, definite plural haloane)

1. halo (atmospheric phenomenon)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xa.l?/

Etymology 1

From English hallo.

Interjection

halo

1. (when answering the telephone) hello

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ???? (hál?s).

Noun

halo n

1. halo (atmospheric phenomenon)
2. buzz, hype

Declension

Indeclinable.

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

halo

1. vocative singular of hala

Further reading

• halo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Medieval Latin, from Latin halos, from Ancient Greek ???? (hál?s, “disk of the sun or moon”).

Noun

halo m (plural halos)

1. (astronomy) halo (atmospheric phenomenon)

   Synonym: auréola

2. (religion, iconography) halo (luminous disc around the heads of saints)

   Synonyms: auréola, nimbo

Romanian

Etymology

From French halo.

Noun

halo n (plural halouri)

1. halo

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Noun

halo m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (astronomy) halo (atmospheric phenomenon)

Etymology 2

From English hallo.

Interjection

halo (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (when answering the telephone) hello

Synonyms

• zdravo
• ?ao

Spanish

Etymology

Medieval Latin, from Latin halos, from Ancient Greek ???? (hál?s, “disk of the sun or moon”).

Noun

halo m (plural halos)

1. halo (atmospheric phenomenon)
2. halo (nimbus around the head of a holy figure)

Verb

halo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of halar.

Swedish

Etymology

Medieval Latin, from Latin halos, from Ancient Greek ???? (hál?s, “disk of the sun or moon”). Related to English and Danish halo.

Noun

halo c (definite singular halon, indefinite plural halor / haloer, definite plural halorna / haloerna)

1. halo (atmospheric phenomenon)

Declension

Tagalog

Noun

halò

1. mixture
2. mix (matter added to a mixture)

Noun

halo

1. pestle

Anagrams

• laho

English

Pronunciation

• Singular:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?????n?/
  • (General American) enPR: k?r?'n?, IPA^(key): /k???o?n?/
  • Rhymes: -??n?
  • Hyphenation: co?ro?na
• Plural (coronae):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?????ni?/, /-a?/, /-e?/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /k???o?ni?/, /-a?/, /-e?/
  • Hyphenation: co?ron?ae

Etymology 1

The noun is borrowed from Latin cor?na (“crown; garland, wreath”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kor?n?, “type of crown; curved object (door handle, tip of a bow, stern of a ship, etc.)”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). The English word is a doublet of crown.

The plural form coronae is borrowed from Latin cor?nae.

The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

corona (plural coronas or coronae or (obsolete) coronæ)

1. A large, round, pendent chandelier, with spikes around its upper rim to hold candles or lamps, usually hung from the roof of a church.

   Synonym: corona lucis
2. (anatomy) An upper or crownlike portion of certain parts of the body.
   1. A region of the skull located along the coronal suture, at the junction between the frontal bone and the two parietal bones.
   2. The external portion of the tooth, covered by enamel; the crown.
   3. The circumference of the base of the glans penis in human males.
3. (architecture) The large, flat, projecting member of a cornice which crowns the entablature, situated above the bed moulding and below the cymatium.

   Synonyms: drip, larmier
4. (astronomy)
   1. The luminous plasma atmosphere of the Sun (the solar corona) or other star, extending millions of kilometres into space, most easily seen during a total solar eclipse.
   2. (also geology) An oval-shaped astrogeological feature, present on both the planet Venus and Uranus's moon Miranda, probably formed by upwellings of warm material below the surface.
5. (by extension) Any luminous or crownlike ring around an object or person.
6. (biology) Any appendage of an organism that resembles a crown or corona (sense 4.1).
   1. (botany) A ring or set of appendages of adaxial tissue arising from the corolla or the outer edge of the stamens, present in some plants (Narcissus, Passiflora, etc.); a paraperigonium.
   2. (zoology)
      1. An annular ciliated organ on the head of rotifers, used for locomotion and sweeping food into the mouth.
      2. The main body of the test of an echinoid, consisting of ambulacral and interambulacral areas.
      3. The crown of a crinoid, consisting of a cuplike central body (theca) and a set of arms.
   3. (virology) A fringe of large, bulbous surface projections on coronaviruses, formed by viral spike peplomers, creating an appearance reminiscent of the solar corona.
7. (electricity) A luminous appearance caused by corona discharge, often seen as a bluish glow in the air adjacent to pointed metal conductors carrying high voltages.
8. (meteorology) A circle or set of circles visible around a bright celestial object, especially the Sun or the Moon, attributable to an optical phenomenon produced by the diffraction of its light by small water droplets or tiny ice crystals.
9. (mineralogy) A mineral zone, consisting of one or more minerals, which surrounds another mineral or lies at the interface of two minerals, typically in a radial arrangement; a reaction rim.
10. (pathology) A manifestation of secondary syphilis, consisting of papular lesions along the hairline, often bordering the scalp in the manner of a crown.

    Synonyms: corona veneris, crown of Venus
11. (Ancient Rome, historical) A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (korona)

Translations

Verb

corona (third-person singular simple present coronas, present participle coronaing, simple past and past participle coronaed)

1. (transitive, rare) To surround with a luminous or crownlike ring like the solar corona.

Derived terms

• coronaed (adjective)

Translations

Etymology 2

A clipping of coronavirus, ultimately from etymology 1.

Noun

corona (countable and uncountable, plural coronas)

1. (informal, also attributively) A coronavirus, especially SARS-CoV-2.

   Synonym: (SARS-CoV-2, informal) rona
2. (informal, also attributively) A disease caused by a coronavirus, especially COVID-19.

Alternative forms

• Corona

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Italian corona.

Noun

corona (plural coronas or corone)

1. (poetry) A series of sonnets linked together such that the last word of each is the first word of the next.

Translations

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Spanish La Corona (literally “The Crown”), a brand of cigars from Havana, Cuba.

Noun

corona (plural coronas)

1. A long, straight-sided cigar with a blunt, rounded end.

Alternative forms

• Corona

Translations

References

Further reading

• coronavirus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• stellar corona on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• corona (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• caroon, racoon

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin corona (“crown”).

Noun

corona f (plural coronas)

1. crown

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) , “corona”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, ?ISBN

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ko??o.n?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ku??o.n?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ko??o.na/

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan corona, from Latin cor?na, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kor?n?, “garland, wreath”).

Noun

corona f (plural corones)

1. crown (decorative headgear)
2. crown (imperial or regal power, or those who wield it)
3. crown (various currencies)

Related terms

• coronar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

corona

1. third-person singular present indicative form of coronar
2. second-person singular imperative form of coronar

Further reading

• “corona” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ko??ro?.na?/
• Hyphenation: co?ro?na
• Rhymes: -o?na?

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin cor?na, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kor?n?).

Noun

corona f (plural corona's)

1. (astronomy) corona

Derived terms

• coronium

Related terms

• kroon

Etymology 2

A clipping of coronavirus.

Noun

corona f or n (uncountable)

1. (informal, usually without definite article) Coronavirus or coronavirus disease, particularly COVID-19.
2. (informal, usually without definite article) The 2019-2021 COVID-19 pandemic.

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.??.na/

Noun

corona m (uncountable)

1. (informal) Clipping of coronavirus.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cor?na, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kor?n?, “garland, wreath”). Compare also cruna, probably from a derivative of the same Latin word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?ro.na/

Noun

corona f (plural corone)

1. crown (of a king, pope etc) (also of a tooth)
2. crown (various units of currency)
3. coronet
4. wreath, chaplet
5. (astronomy) corona (of a star etc)

Derived terms

• corona solare
• coronare
• coronato
• incoronare
• incoronazione

Descendants

• ? Byzantine Greek: ?????? (koróna)
  • Greek: ?????? (koróna), ?????? (koróna)
    • ?? Bulgarian: ?????? (korona)
    • ?? Romanian: coroan?

Verb

corona

1. third-person singular present indicative of coronare
2. second-person singular imperative of coronare

Anagrams

• ancoro, ancorò
• canoro
• corano, Corano

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (kor?n?, “a type of sea-bird, perhaps shearwater; a crow; anything curved or hooked (like a door handle or the tip of a bow); a type of crown”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cor?na f (genitive cor?nae); first declension

1. garland, chaplet, laurel, or wreath; presented to athletes, the gods, or the dead
2. crown
3. circle (of people), assembly

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

• cor?lla
• cor?n?lis
• cor?n?mentum
• cor?n?rius
• cor?n?tus
• cor?n?

Descendants

Borrowings

Unsorted borrowings

References

• corona in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• corona in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• corona in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• corona in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[11], London: Macmillan and Co.
• corona in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[12]
• corona in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• corona in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Leonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

corona f (plural coronas)

1. crown

References

• AEDLL

Old English

Etymology

From Latin cor?na, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kor?n?, “garland, wreath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ko.ro?.n?/

Noun

cor?na m

1. crown

Declension

Derived terms

• ?ecor?nian

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “cor?na”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin cor?na, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kor?n?, “garland, wreath”).

Noun

corona f (oblique plural coronas, nominative singular corona, nominative plural coronas)

1. crown

Descendants

• Catalan: corona
• Occitan: corona, courouno

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko??ona/, [ko??o.na]

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish corona, from Latin cor?na (“crown”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kor?n?, “garland, wreath”).

Noun

corona f (plural coronas)

1. crown
2. (heraldry) crown
3. crown (various units of currency)
4. (of a star) corona
5. wreath; ring, circle

6. sprocket; (bicycle sprockets) cassette
7. (mechanics) larger part of a pair of gear wheels

   Synonym: rueda dentada

   Antonym: piñón

8. washer

   Synonym: arandela

Derived terms

• coronal
• coroniblanco
• coronilla
• grupo corona
• La Corona
• moldura de corona

Related terms

• corola
• coronar
• coronel

Descendants

• ? Karao: korona

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

corona

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of coronar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of coronar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of coronar.

Etymology 3

Clipping of coronavirus.

Noun

corona m (uncountable)

1. (informal) coronavirus

Further reading

• “corona” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.