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English

Etymology

From Danish krone (“crown”) and Norwegian krone. Doublet of crown.

Noun

krone (plural kroner)

1. The currency of Iceland, Denmark (including Greenland and the Faroe Islands) and Norway, divided into 100 øre, except in Iceland where 1 króna = 100 aurar.

Synonyms

• crown

Translations

Anagrams

• Nkore

Afrikaans

Noun

krone

1. plural of kroon

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k???o?n?]

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German kr?ne, from Latin cor?na (“crown”). Compare also German Krone.

Noun

krone c (singular definite kronen, plural indefinite kroner)

1. crown (royal hairdress, and in a wider sense: the royal power)
2. krone, crown (the currency of Denmark, Norway or Sweden, divided into 100 øre)
3. heads (side of coin)
4. (botany) top (tree top)
5. (botany) corolla
6. (anatomy) crown (of a tooth)

Inflection

Descendants

• ? Faroese: króna
• ? Icelandic: króna

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German kr?nen, from Latin cor?n?re (“to crown”). Compare also German krönen.

Verb

krone (imperative kron, infinitive at krone, present tense kroner, past tense kronede, perfect tense har kronet)

1. to crown

Inflection

Derived terms

• kroning

Further reading

• krone on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Verb

krone

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of kronen

Anagrams

• koren, roken

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

krone f or m (definite singular krona or kronen, indefinite plural kroner, definite plural kronene)

1. krone (the currencies of Norway, Denmark and Iceland. Can also be used about Estonia's currency (kroon))
2. krona (currency of Sweden)
3. a crown (a royal or imperial headdress)
4. (dentistry) crown (a prosthetic covering for a tooth)
5. crown, canopy or top (of a tree)

Derived terms

Verb

krone (present tense kroner, past tense krona or kronet, past participle krona or kronet)

1. to crown, or coronate (not normally used), perform a coronation

Derived terms

• kroning

References

• “krone” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “krone_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “krone_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• (verb): krona (a-infinitive)
• (noun): krona (non-standard since 2012)
  • (heads of a coin): kron

Etymology

From Old Norse krúna, from Middle Low German, from Latin cor?na, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kor?n?), from ??????? (kor?nós, “curved”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²kru?n?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

krone f (definite singular krona, indefinite plural kroner, definite plural kronene)

1. crown (a royal or imperial headdress)
2. (metonymically) the sovereign as a head of state
3. (numismatics) a coin of such a currency
4. (numismatics) a currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress), or more specifically:
   1. krone (the currencies of Norway, Denmark and Iceland);
   2. krona (currency of Sweden);
   3. the Estonian kroon;
   4. (historical) such currencies used within the Austro-Hungarian Empire or her successor states.
5. heads (side of coin)

   Antonym: mynt

6. (dentistry) crown (prosthetic covering for a tooth)
7. crown or top (of a tree)

Derived terms

Related terms

• korona

Verb

krone (present tense kronar, past tense krona, past participle krona, passive infinitive kronast, present participle kronande, imperative kron)

1. to crown

   Synonym: kryne

Derived terms

• kroning f (“coronation”)

References

• “krone” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• enkor, koner, korne, nokre, orken, roken, rokne, ronke, ròken

Slovak

Etymology

From Danish krone and Norwegian krone, from Latin cor?na.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kr?n?/

Noun

krone f

1. (numismatics) krona (currency of Denmark and Norway)

References

• krone in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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”)