corolla

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹoʊlə/, /kəˈɹɑlə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹəʊlə/, /kəˈɹɒlə/
• Hyphenation: co‧rol‧la

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.

• corolline
• corollate
• corollaceous

• petal
• perianth
• tepal
• calyx
• sepal

• Carollo

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

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

corolla f (plural corolle)

1. (botany) corolla

• Carollo, colarlo, corallo

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /koˈroːl.la/, [kɔˈroːlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈrol.la/, [koˈrɔlːä]

corōlla f (genitive corōllae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• corōllāria
• corōllārium

• corōna
• corōnāmentum
• corōnārius
• corōnō

• “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