Word Origin Summary

Corona is attested in Italian. 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
2. corōnaLatininherited from
3. κορώνηAncient Greekderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• virus corona

  Vietnamese · borrowed from

• korona

  Indonesian · derived from

• caroon

  English · derived from

• കൊറോണ

  Malayalam · derived from

• korona

  Yoruba · derived from

• corona

  English · borrowed from

• vi trùng corona

  Vietnamese · borrowed from

• 코로나

  Korean · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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