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