Word Origin Summary

Κορώνη is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *(s)ker-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• krona

  Latvian · derived from

• couronne

  French · derived from

• krono

  Esperanto · borrowed from

• SARSr-CoV

  Translingual · derived from

• coronavirus

  Romanian · borrowed from

• couraonne

  Norman · derived from

• coronavirus

  Spanish · borrowed from

• korona

  English · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root