coronis — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

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. The conclusion of something; the end of something.

   Uso

   • figurato
   • obsoleto
   • raro

   Esempi

   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.

   Uso

   • Ancient-Greek