coronis

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

cŏrōnis, ĭdis, f., = κορωνίς,

a curved line or flourish formed with a pen, which writers or transcribers were accustomed to make at the end of a book or chapter; hence, as in Gr. (cf. Lidd. and Scott, under κορωνίς), for the end : serā coronide longus, * Mart. 10, 1, 1.

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