corolla
See also: corol·la
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin corōlla (“small garland, chaplet or wreath”), diminutive of corōna (“garland, chaplet, wreath”).
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /kəˈɹoʊlə/, /kəˈɹɑlə/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəˈɹəʊlə/, /kəˈɹɒlə/
- Hyphenation: co‧rol‧la
Noun edit
corolla (plural corollas or corollae or corollæ)
- (botany) An outermost-but-one whorl of a flower, composed of petals, when it is not the same in appearance as the outermost whorl (the calyx); it usually comprises the petal, which may be fused.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 125:
- Our wet fingers touched and we formed a circle like the corolla of a flower, floating into the silence of the desert dawn with the ancient sun on our bodies.
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whorl of a flower
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Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin corōlla (“small garland, chaplet or wreath”), diminutive of corōna (“garland, chaplet, wreath”).
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Noun edit
corolla f (plural corolle)
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From corōna (“garland, chaplet, wreath”) + -la (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /koˈroːl.la/, [kɔˈroːlːʲä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /koˈrol.la/, [koˈrɔlːä]
Noun edit
corōlla f (genitive corōllae); first declension
- Diminutive of corōna (“garland, chaplet, wreath”)
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | corōlla | corōllae |
Genitive | corōllae | corōllārum |
Dative | corōllae | corōllīs |
Accusative | corōllam | corōllās |
Ablative | corōllā | corōllīs |
Vocative | corōlla | corōllae |
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References edit
- “corolla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “corolla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- corolla in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- corolla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “corolla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “corolla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin