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Diphthong vs Coronis - What's the difference?

diphthong | coronis |

As nouns the difference between diphthong and coronis

is that diphthong is a complex vowel sound that begins with the sound of one vowel and ends with the sound of another vowel, in the same syllable while coronis is a device, curved stroke, or flourish formed with a pen, coming at the end of a book or chapter; a colophon. For example: ⸎, ۞.

diphthong

English

(wikipedia diphthong)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (phonetics) A complex vowel sound that begins with the sound of one vowel and ends with the sound of another vowel, in the same syllable.
    • For example: "ae", "au", "ou"
  • (rare) A vowel digraph or ligature.
  • * 1854 , Robert Bigsby, Historical and Topographical Description of Repton, in the County of Derby , Woodfall and Kinder, page 47:
    • And he might have written the name, also, with the diphthong æ, as well as the single vowel, in the initial syllable, throughout all the preceding forms.
  • * 1860 , Joseph E. Worcester, An Elementary Dictionary of the English Language , A New Edition, Swan, Brewer, and Tileston (publishers), page 12:
    • An improper diphthong has only one of the vowels sounded; as, ea'' in ''heat'', ''oa'' in ''coal .
  • * 1874 , Theophilus Dwight Hall, A Child’s First Latin Book , John Murray (publisher), page 3:
    • The diphthong ae'' is sounded like ''?'' (§7); that is, it has the sound of ''ey'' in ''they .

    Derived terms

    * diphthongal * diphthongize * diphthongization * diphthongoid

    Related terms

    * monophthong * triphthong

    See also

    * glide * ligature

    coronis

    English

    Noun

    (coronides)
  • A device, curved stroke, or flourish formed with a pen, coming at the end of a book or chapter; a colophon.
  • (figuratively, obsolete, rare) A thing’s conclusion; its end.
  • * 1592–1670 : , Scrinia reserata: a Memorial offer’d to the great Deservings of John Williams, D.D., Archbishop of York , volume 2, page 38
    • The coronis of this matter is thus?;?some bad ones in this family were punish’d strictly, all rebuk’d, not all amended.
  • A spiritus lenis'' written atop a non–word-initial vowel retained from the second word which formed a contraction resulting from ''crasis ; see .

    • Usage notes

    * Generally, the Ancient Greek spiritûs'' are only written atop initial letters ''rho'', initial vowels, and the second vowels of word-initial diphthongs. The coronis is one of only two exceptions to this rule; the other is the case of the double-''rho , which is written as .

    See also

    * colophon * vignette

    References

    Anagrams

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