coronis
/kəˈɹoʊ.nɪs/noun
coronis is a noun meaning “A device, curved stroke, or flourish formed with a pen, coming at the end of a book or chapter; a colophon. For example: ⸎, ۞” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-R-O-N-I-S and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 83 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of coronis is coronides.
What does coronis mean?
noun
- 1
A device, curved stroke, or flourish formed with a pen, coming at the end of a book or chapter; a colophon. For example: ⸎, ۞.
- 2
obsoleterareThe 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.
- 3
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.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce coronis?
- UK /kɒˈɹəʊnɪs/
- US /kəˈɹoʊ.nɪs/
Coronis has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of coronis
- coronides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is coronis?
Coronis appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th 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 coronis come from?
From the Latin corōnis, from the Ancient Greek κορωνίς (korōnís, “crasis coronis”, “editorial coronis”); cognate with the French coronis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).