corolla

See also: corol·la and Corolla

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

corolla (plural corollas or corollae or corollæ)

1. (botany) The 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.

Derived terms

• corollet
• corolliferous
• corolliform
• paracorolla

Related terms

• corolline
• corollate
• corollaceous

Translations

whorl of a flower

Arabic: تُوَيْج m (tuwayj), تاج (ar) (tāj) Assamese: দলমণ্ডল n (dolomondol) Bulgarian: венче (bg) n (venče) Catalan: corol·la (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 花冠 (zh) (huāguān) Czech: koruna (cs) f Dutch: kroon (nl) m, bloemkroon (nl) m Finnish: teriö (fi) French: corolle (fr) f German: Blumenkrone f, Korolla (de) f, Krone (de) f Greek: στεφάνη (el) f (stefáni) Italian: corolla (it) f Japanese: 花冠 (ja) (かかん, kakan) Marathi: दली (dalī) Ottoman Turkish: تویج (tüveyc) Portuguese: corola (pt) f Romanian: corolă (ro) f Russian: ве́нчик (ru) m (vénčik) Spanish: corola (es) f Tagalog: korola Turkish: tüveyc Ukrainian: віно́чок m (vinóčok)

See also

• petal
• perianth
• tepal
• calyx
• sepal

Anagrams

• Carollo

Italian

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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

Anagrams

• Carollo, colarlo, corallo

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔˈroːl.la]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koˈrɔl.la]

Noun

corōlla f (genitive corōllae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	corōlla	corōllae
genitive	corōllae	corōllārum
dative	corōllae	corōllīs
accusative	corōllam	corōllās
ablative	corōllā	corōllīs
vocative	corōlla	corōllae

Derived terms

• corōllāria
• corōllārium

Related terms

• corōna
• corōnāmentum
• corōnārius
• corōnō

Descendants

• Catalan: curull, → corol·la
• → English: corolla
• → French: corolle
• → Galician: corola
• → Italian: corolla
• → Portuguese: corola, carola
• → Spanish: corola, corolla

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