Where does “coroner” come from?
Coroner comes from Middle English coroner, from Old French curuner, from Latin custos placitorum coronae, meaning a keeper of the crown's pleas.
coroner (English): A public official who presides over an inquest...
Definitions
- A public official who presides over an inquest...
Ancestry of “coroner”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | coroner | A coroner |
| 2 | Old French | coroner | to crown |
| 3 | Latin | corōnō | to crown, wreathe, coronate (with a garland, wreath, or crown) |
| 4 | Latin | corōna | chaplet, laurel, or wreath; presented to athletes, the gods, or the dead |
| 5 | Spanish | -illa | Added to feminine nouns to denote a diminutive... |
| 6 | Old Spanish | -iella | A diminutive suffix |
| 7 | Latin | -ella | inflection of -ellus: ## nominative/vocative... |
| 8 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 9 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |