different between initial vs coronis

English

Etymology

From Middle French initial or straightway from its Latin etymon initi?lis (“of the beginning, incipient, initial”), from initium (“a going in, entrance, beginning”), from inire (“to go in, enter upon, begin”), from in (“in”) + ire (“to go”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n???l/
• Rhymes: -???l

Adjective

initial (not comparable)

1. Chronologically first, early; of or pertaining to the beginning, cause or origin.
2. Spatially first, placed at the beginning, in the first position; especially said of the first letter of a word.

Synonyms

• incipient
• opening

Antonyms

• final

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

initial (plural initials)

1. The first letter of a word or a name.
2. In plural, the first letter of each word of a person's full name considered as a unit.

   You can get your initials printed at the top.

3. (typography, calligraphy) A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.
4. (phonology) onset, part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus in phonetics and phonology.

Synonyms

• (typography, calligraphy): drop cap, versal

Derived terms

• initialism
• initial teaching alphabet

Translations

Verb

initial (third-person singular simple present initials, present participle initialing or initialling, simple past and past participle initialed or initialled)

1. (transitive) To sign one's initial(s), as an abbreviated signature.

Translations

Related terms

See also

• middle

Further reading

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

French

Etymology

From Latin initi?lis, from initium (“beginning”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ni.sjal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

initial (feminine singular initiale, masculine plural initiaux, feminine plural initiales)

1. initial

Related terms

Further reading

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

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ini?t?s??a?l/

Adjective

initial (not comparable)

1. initial, incipient

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin initi?lis.

Noun

initial m (definite singular initialen, indefinite plural initialer, definite plural initialene)

1. an initial (first letter of a name)

References

• “initial” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin initi?lis.

Noun

initial m (definite singular initialen, indefinite plural initialar, definite plural initialane)

1. an initial (first letter of a name)

References

• “initial” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

From the Latin cor?nis, from the Ancient Greek ??????? (kor?nís, “crasis coronis”, “editorial coronis”); cognate with the French coronis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: k?r??n?s, IPA^(key): /k?????n?s/,

Noun

coronis (plural coronides)

1. A device, curved stroke, or flourish formed with a pen, coming at the end of a book or chapter; a colophon. For example: ?, ?.
2. (figuratively, obsolete, rare) A thing’s conclusion; its end.
   • 1592–1670: Bishop John Hacket, Scrinia reserata: a Memorial offer’d to the great Deservings of John Williams, D.D., Archbishop of York, volume 2, page 38

     The coronis of this matter is thus?;?some bad ones in this family were punish’d strictly, all rebuk’d, not all amended.

3. (Ancient Greek grammar) A character similar to an apostrophe or the smooth breathing written atop or next to a non–word-initial vowel retained from the second word which formed a contraction resulting from crasis; see the usage note.

Usage notes

• Generally, the Ancient Greek breathings are only written atop initial letters (the consonant rho, initial vowels, and the second vowels of word-initial diphthongs). The coronis is one of only two exceptions to this rule; the other is the case of the double-rho, which is written as ??.

See also

• colophon
• vignette

References

Anagrams

• conisor, corinos, cosinor, sonoric

Catalan

Verb

coronis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive form of coronar

French

Noun

coronis m (plural coronis)

1. tree grayling (butterfly Hipparchia statilinus)

Noun

coronis f (plural coronis)

1. coronis (diacritic)

Synonyms

• (butterfly): faune

Friulian

Noun

coronis

1. plural of corone

Latin

Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek ??????? (kor?nís, “crasis coronis”, “editorial coronis”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cor?nis f (genitive cor?nidis); third declension

1. coronis, colophon
2. The end of a book or chapter.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• English: coronis
• French: coronis
• Italian: coronide

Etymology 2

Inflected form of cor?na (“garland, wreath; crown”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ko?ro?.ni?s/, [k???o?ni?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko?ro.nis/, [k?????nis]

Noun

cor?n?s

1. dative plural of cor?na
2. ablative plural of cor?na

References

• coronis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coronis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• coronis in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• coronis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• coronis in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• coronis in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin