corolla
See also: corol·la
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin corōlla (“small garland, chaplet or wreath”), diminutive of corōna (“garland, chaplet, wreath”).
PronunciationEdit
- (General American) IPA(key): /kəˈɹoʊlə/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəˈɹəʊlə/
- Hyphenation: co‧rol‧la
NounEdit
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 1992, p. 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.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 125:
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TranslationsEdit
whorl of a flower
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ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin corōlla (“small garland, chaplet or wreath”), diminutive of corōna (“garland, chaplet, wreath”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
corolla f (plural corolle)
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LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
Diminutive of corōna (“garland, chaplet, wreath”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
corōlla f (genitive corōllae); first declension
DeclensionEdit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | corōlla | corōllae |
Genitive | corōllae | corōllārum |
Dative | corōllae | corōllīs |
Accusative | corōllam | corōllās |
Ablative | corōllā | corōllīs |
Vocative | corōlla | corōllae |
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ReferencesEdit
- corolla in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
- corolla in Charlton T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891
- corolla in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- corolla in Gaffiot, Félix, Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, 1934
- corolla in Harry Thurston Peck, editor, Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898
- corolla in William Smith et al., editor, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin, 1890