coronis
A device, curved stroke, or flourish formed with a pen, coming at the end of a book or chapter; a colophon. For example: ⸎, ۞.
Noun
- A device, curved stroke, or flourish formed with a pen, coming at the end of a book or chapter; a colophon. For example: ⸎, ۞.
- The conclusion of something; the end of something.
- The coronis of this matter is thus ; some bad ones in this family were punish’d strictly, all rebuk’d, not all amended. - 1592–1670: Bishop John Hacket, Scrinia reserata: a Memorial offer’d to the great Deservings of...
- 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.
Origin
From the Latin corōnis, from the Ancient Greek κορωνίς (korōnís, “crasis coronis”, “editorial coronis”); cognate with the French coronis.