corolla

See also: corol·la

English

Etymology

From Latin corōlla (small garland, chaplet or wreath), diminutive of corōna (garland, chaplet, wreath).

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Noun

corolla (plural corollas or corollae or corollæ)

  1. (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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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin corōlla (small garland, chaplet or wreath), diminutive of corōna (garland, chaplet, wreath).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /koˈrol.la/
  • Rhymes: -olla
  • Hyphenation: co‧ról‧la

Noun

corolla f (plural corolle)

  1. (botany) corolla

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Latin

Etymology

From corōna (garland, chaplet, wreath) + -la (diminutive suffix).

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Noun

corōlla f (genitive corōllae); first declension

  1. Diminutive of corōna (garland, chaplet, wreath)

Declension

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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References

  • 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
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