Where does “crownlike” come from?
crownlike (English) comes from English Crown, from Middle English coroune, from Old French coroner, from Latin corōnō, from Latin corōna, from Spanish -illa, from Old Spanish -iella, from Latin -ella — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
crownlike (English): Resembling a crown
Definitions
- Resembling a crown
Ancestry of “crownlike”, step by step
crownlike traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Crown
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Crown | The sovereign of a monarchy; often with reference to that of the Commonwealth realms |
| 2 | Middle English | coroune | An important, symbolic, or significant piece of... |
| 3 | Old French | coroner | to crown |
| 4 | Latin | corōnō | to crown, wreathe, coronate (with a garland, wreath, or crown) |
| 5 | Latin | corōna | chaplet, laurel, or wreath; presented to athletes, the gods, or the dead |
| 6 | Spanish | -illa | Added to feminine nouns to denote a diminutive... |
| 7 | Old Spanish | -iella | A diminutive suffix |
| 8 | Latin | -ella | inflection of -ellus: ## nominative/vocative... |
| 9 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 10 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via English like
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | like | To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of;... |
| 2 | Dutch | luik | hatch; shutter; panel, as in a triptych |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | luke | — |
| 4 | Dutch | luiken | to close, to shut |
| 5 | Middle Dutch | luken | to close, to shut; to close, to become closed |
| 6 | Old Dutch | lūcan | to close, shut |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | lūkan | to close, to shut |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | lūkaną | to close, to shut; Alternative form of *leukaną |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | lewǵ- | to break, tear; to break, shatter |