coronial
adjective, noun
coronial is an adjective meaning “Of, by or pertaining to a coroner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-R-O-N-I-A-L, and it appears about once in every 24 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does coronial mean?
adjective
- 1
AustraliaOf, by or pertaining to a coroner.
- 2
Of or pertaining to coronides.
noun
- 1
A baby conceived or born during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially one apparently conceived during a lockdown.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of coronial
- coronials plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is coronial?
Coronial appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does coronial come from?
From coroner + -ial. By surface analysis, Latin coron(a) (“crown, wreath”) + -i- + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).