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coral

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English

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Eunicella cavolinii (1), (2)

Etymology

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From Old French coral (French corail), from Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek κοράλλιον (korállion, “coral”). Probably ultimately of Semitic origin,[1] compare Hebrew גּוֹרָל (goral, “small pebble”), Arabic جَرَل (jaral, “small stone”), originally referring to the red variety found in the Mediterranean. Since ancient times, a common folk etymology, accepted by some earlier scholars, connected the word instead to Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē) (referring to Medusa).[2][3][4] Beekes mentions both theories and considers the Semitic one convincing.[5]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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coral (countable and uncountable, plural corals)

  1. (countable) Any of many species of marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa, most of which build hard calcium carbonate skeletons and form colonies, or a colony belonging to one of those species.
  2. (uncountable) A hard substance made of the skeletons of these organisms.
  3. (countable) A somewhat yellowish orange-pink color; the color of red coral (Corallium rubrum) of the Mediterranean Sea, commonly used as an ornament or gem.
    coral:  
  4. The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their color.
  5. (historical) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
    • 1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White‎[1]:
      On the very chair which I used to occupy when I was at work Marian was sitting now, with the child industriously sucking his coral upon her lap.

Translations

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Adjective

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coral (not comparable)

  1. Made of coral.
  2. Having the orange-pink color of coral.

Derived terms

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Translations

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Lewy, Heinrich (1895) Die semitischen Fremdwörter im Griechischen (in German), Berlin: R. Gaertner’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, pages 18–19
  2. ^ See e.g. Lithica (one of the Orphic poems), 510-610, and Pliny the Elder, Natural History, book XXXII, line 11.
  3. ^ C. W. King, The Natural History of Gems or Decorative Stones, 1867, Bell & Daldy, London, pp. 100–101.
  4. ^ Liddell and Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, Harpers & Brothers, New York, 1846, p. 792.
  5. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Anagrams

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Asturian

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Etymology 1

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From Old Leonese cor, from a derivative of Latin cor with a group suffix -al. Doublet of corazu, corazón, and cuer.

Noun

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coral f (plural corales) or corales

  1. heart
    Synonyms: corazu, corazón, cuer
    La coral asítiase nel llau esquierdu'l pechu
    The heart is located on the left side of the chest

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Spanish coral.

Noun

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coral f (plural corales)

  1. chorus music
  2. chorale

Etymology 3

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Borrowed from Spanish coral.

Noun

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coral m (plural corales)

  1. coral

Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From cor (“heart”) +‎ -al.

Adjective

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coral m or f (masculine and feminine plural corals)

  1. strong, close (relationship)

Etymology 2

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From cor (“choir”) +‎ -al.

Adjective

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coral m or f (masculine and feminine plural corals)

  1. choral

Noun

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coral m (plural corals)

  1. chorus music
  2. chorale

Etymology 3

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Borrowed from Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek κοράλλιον (korállion).

Noun

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coral m (plural corals)

  1. coral (organism)
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Galician

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Galician-Portuguese coral, borrowed from Old French coral, from Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek κοράλλιον (korállion).

Noun

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coral m (plural corais)

  1. (zoology) coral
    • 1395, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 160:
      mando a miña Neta Tareija sanches todo o aliofar et coraes que eu ey et os esmaltes et o meu Reliquario esmaltado et a miña Cunca de plata dourada et as miñas doas de ouro
      I send to my granddaughter Tareixa Sanchez all of my pearls and corals, and the enamels, and my enamelled relicary and my gilded silver bowl and my beads of gold
  2. coral (color)
  3. roe (the eggs or ovaries of certain crustaceans)
    Synonym: míllaras
  4. sea fan (Eunicella verrucosa)

Etymology 2

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coro (“choir”) +‎ -al.

Adjective

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coral m or f (plural corais)

  1. choral

Noun

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coral f (plural corais)

  1. chorale

References

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Old Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old French coral, from Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek κοράλλιον (korállion).

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Noun

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coral m (plural corales)

  1. coral
    • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 14v:
      DEl dozeno grado del ſigno de tauro es la piedra aque dizen coral negro.
      Of the twelfth degree of the sign of Taurus is the stone they call black coral.

Descendants

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  • Ladino: koral
  • Spanish: coral

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: co‧ral

Etymology 1

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Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin chorālis. By surface analysis, coro +‎ -al.

Alternative forms

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Noun

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coral m (plural corais)

  1. (music) choir (ensemble of people who sing together)
    Synonym: coro
  2. (music) choral song (song written for a choir to perform)
  3. (music) chorale (a Lutheran hymn)
  4. (figurative) a group of people, creatures or objects making noise together

Adjective

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coral m or f (plural corais)

  1. (music) choral (relating to choirs)
  2. (music) choral (written to be performed by a choir)

Etymology 2

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From Late Latin corallum or Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek κοράλλιον (korállion, “coral”), of uncertain origin.

Noun

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coral m (plural corais)

  1. coral (any of various species of anthozoans)
  2. coral (the skeleton of marine polyps)
  3. coral (colony of marine polyps)
  4. coral (a yellowish pink color)

Noun

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coral f (plural corais)

  1. Ellipsis of cobra-coral.

Adjective

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coral m or f (plural corais)

  1. coral in color
    Synonym: coralino

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French choral.

Adjective

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coral m or n (feminine singular corală, masculine plural corali, feminine and neuter plural corale)

  1. choral

Declension

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singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative 		indefinite coral corală corali corale
definite coralul corala coralii coralele
genitive-
dative 		indefinite coral corale corali corale
definite coralului coralei coralilor coralelor

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /koˈɾal/ [koˈɾal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: co‧ral

Etymology 1

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Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia es

Inherited from Old Spanish coral, from Old French coral, from Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek κοράλλιον (korállion).

Noun

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coral m (plural corales)

  1. (zoology) coral
  2. (botany) coral vine (Kennedia coccinea)
Derived terms
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Adjective

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coral m or f (masculine and feminine plural corales)

  1. coral (color)

Etymology 2

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From coro (“choir”) +‎ -al.

Adjective

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coral m or f (masculine and feminine plural corales)

  1. choral
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Noun

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coral m (plural corales)

  1. chorale

Further reading

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