coronal

Etymology 1

From Middle English coronal, from Anglo-Norman coronal, from Latin corōnālis (“related to a crown”), from corōna (“crown”).

adj

1. Relating to a crown or coronation.
2. (astronomy) Relating to the corona of a star.
   The coronal light during the eclipse is faint. 1878, William de Wiveleslie Abney, A Treatise on Photography
   Coronal holes are darker, cooler regions of the sun's atmosphere, or corona, containing little solar material. In these gaps, magnetic field lines whip out into the solar wind rather than looping back to the sun's surface. Coronal holes can affect space weather, as they send solar particles streaming off the sun about three times faster than the slower wind unleashed elsewhere from the sun's atmosphere, according to a description from NASA. 2013-07-28, Megan Gannon, “Spacecraft Sees Giant 'Hole' In the Sun”, in news.yahoo.com, retrieved 2013-07-29
3. (botany) Relating to the corona of a flower.
4. (phonetics) Relating to a sound made with the tip or blade of the tongue.
5. (anatomy) Relating to the coronal plane that divides a body into dorsal (back) and ventral (front).
6. (dentistry) Relating to the external (supragingival) portion of the tooth.
7. (urology) Relating to the corona glandis.

noun

1. A crown or coronet.
2. A wreath or garland of flowers.
   The bowl is in the Renaissance style, with winged figures supporting coronals and wreaths of flowers, and on the edge is an emblematic figure pouring out water. 1862, Edward McDermott, The Popular Guide to the International Exhibition of 1862, Cambridge University Press, published 2014
   Where, darker for the sky's unclouded dome, The waves took sudden coronals of foam 1911, George Sterling, Duandon
3. The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronae or garlands.
   Oxycephaly results from the fusion of both coronal sutures and of the sagittal suture; trigonocephaly from a fusion of both coronals; […] 1947, Hans Grüneberg, Animal Genetics and Medicine, page 190
4. (phonetics) A consonant produced with the tip or blade of the tongue.
   This structurally accounts for a number of phenomena that treat coronals asymetrically with respect to other places of articulation. 2011, Mirco Ghini, Asymmetries in the Phonology of Miogliola, page 34

Etymology 2

noun

1. Alternative form of cronel (“lance-part”)
   By Mr. Neville's kindness an accurate drawing of this relic has been obtained, and, considering the circumstances of its discovery, it has been conjectured that it may have been the coronal of a tilting lance. 1848, The Archaeological Journal, page 227
   […] the proper stroke was to knock off the salade, or bear it off in triumph on the three-pronged coronal of the lance. 1864, Central Committee of the British Archaeological Association for the Encouragement and Prosecution of Researches into the Arts and Monuments of the Early and Middle Ages, The Archaeological Journal, page 177
   The tilting lance differed from a war lance in that it possessed a coronal instead of a point. The coronal consisted of[…] 1908, Bertram Edward Sargeaunt, Weapons: A Brief Discourse on Hand-weapons Other Than Fire-arms, page 26

Etymology 3

noun

1. Obsolete form of colonel.