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Where does “Crown” come from?

Crown derives from Middle English crowne, from Old French coroner, from Latin corona meaning a circular ornament or wreath, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European (s)ker- meaning to turn or bend.

Ancestry of “Crown”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishcorouneAn important, symbolic, or significant piece of...
2Old Frenchcoronerto crown
3Latincorōnō—
4Latincorōna—
5Spanish-illaAdded to feminine nouns to denote a diminutive...
6Old Spanish-iellaA diminutive suffix
7Latin-ellainflection of -ellus: ## nominative/vocative...
8Latin-ellusAlternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine...
9Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
10Proto-Italic-olos—
11Proto-Italic-elos—
12Proto-Indo-European-e-lós—
13Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots
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