coron

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coron m (plural corons)

1. miner's house (in Northern France)
2. mining village

• “coron”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Proto-West Germanic *koʀōn.

coron

1. to assess, to test

• Middle Dutch: cōren

• “koron”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Borrowed from Middle English corone, from Old French corone, from Latin corōna.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔrɔn/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkoːrɔn/, /ˈkɔrɔn/
• Rhymes: -ɔrɔn

coron f (plural coronau)

1. crown (royal headdress)
2. (metonymically) the crown (sovereign power of a monarch)
3. (historical) crown (predecimalization British coin worth five shillings)

• coroni (“to crown, to coronate”)

• ffyrling (“farthing”)
• dimai (“halfpenny”)
• ceiniog (“penny”)
• dwygeiniog (“twopence, tuppence”)
• chwecheiniog (“sixpence”)
• swllt (“shilling”)
• hanner coron (“half-crown”)
• sofren (“sovereign”)
• gini (“guinea”)