coronal

Relating to a crown or coronation.

Adjective

  1. Relating to a crown or coronation.
    • The law and his coronal oath require his undeniable assent to what laws the Parliament agree upon. - 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
  2. Relating to the corona of a star.
    • The coronal light during the eclipse is faint. - 1878, William de Wiveleslie Abney, A Treatise on Photography:
    • Coronal holes are darker, cooler regions of the sun's atmosphere, or corona, containing little solar material. In these gaps, magnetic field lines whip out into the solar wind rather than looping back to the sun's...
  3. Relating to the corona of a flower.
  4. Relating to a sound made with the tip or blade of the tongue.
  5. Relating to the coronal plane that divides a body into dorsal (back) and ventral (front).
  6. Relating to the external (supragingival) portion of the tooth.
  7. Relating to the corona glandis.
  8. Relating to a coroner's findings.

Origin

From Middle English coronal, from Anglo-Norman coronal, from Latin corōnālis (“related to a crown”), from corōna (“a crown”).

Forms

more coronal most coronal

Hyponyms

interdental dental alveolar postalveolar retroflex palatoalveolar alveopalatal palatal

Derived

apicocoronal bicoronal coronal hole coronally coronal mass ejection coronal plane coronal rain coronal suture distocoronal extracoronal geocoronal hemicoronal infracoronal intercoronal intracoronal midcoronal pearly coronal papules pericoronal precoronal unicoronal

Noun Entry 2

  1. A crown or coronet.
    • Therfore aryse and dresse the thow gloton / For this day shall thou dye of my hand / Thenne the gloton anone starte vp and tooke a grete clubbe in his hand / and smote at the kynge that his coronal fylle to the erthe -...
    • That shall embellish more your beautie bright, / And crowne your heades with heavenly coronall, / Such as the Angels weare before Gods tribunall! - 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […],...
  2. A wreath or garland of flowers.
    • The bowl is in the Renaissance style, with winged figures supporting coronals and wreaths of flowers, and on the edge is an emblematic figure pouring out water. - 1862, Edward McDermott, The Popular Guide to the...
    • Where, darker for the sky's unclouded dome, The waves took sudden coronals of foam - 1911, George Sterling, Duandon:
  3. The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronae or garlands.
    • Oxycephaly results from the fusion of both coronal sutures and of the sagittal suture; trigonocephaly from a fusion of both coronals; […] - 1947, Hans Grüneberg, Animal Genetics and Medicine, page 190:
  4. A consonant produced with the tip or blade of the tongue.
    • This structurally accounts for a number of phenomena that treat coronals asymetrically with respect to other places of articulation. - 2011, Mirco Ghini, Asymmetries in the Phonology of Miogliola, page 34:

Forms

coronals

Noun alt of, alternative

  1. Alternative form of cronel (“lance-part”).
    • By Mr. Neville's kindness an accurate drawing of this relic has been obtained, and, considering the circumstances of its discovery, it has been conjectured that it may have been the coronal of a tilting lance. - 1848,...
    • […] the proper stroke was to knock off the salade, or bear it off in triumph on the three-pronged coronal of the lance. - 1864, Central Committee of the British Archaeological Association for the Encouragement and...
    • The tilting lance differed from a war lance in that it possessed a coronal instead of a point. The coronal consisted of[…] - 1908, Bertram Edward Sargeaunt, Weapons: A Brief Discourse on Hand-weapons Other Than...

Forms

coronals

Noun alt of, obsolete

  1. Obsolete form of colonel.

Forms

coronals