coroa

From Old Galician-Portuguese corõa (“crown”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin corōna, from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “garland, wreath”).

• croa

• IPA^(key): /koˈɾoa̝/, /ˈkɾoa̝/

coroa f (plural coroas)

1. crown
2. (metonymic) sovereign
3. (by extension) the government, the state
4. krone
5. (toponymy, archaeology) hill-fort; ringfort; locally, a walled Iron Age fort
   • 1252, J.I. Fernández de Viana & al. (eds.), "El Tumbo de Caaveiro. 1ª Parte. | 2ª Parte", Cátedra (Revista eumesa de estudios), 4, page 353:

     commo departe per la coroa de Castro Reyriz, e commo se vay a dereito ao pescoço de Castro Mao

     as it departs from the crown of Castro [Castle/Hill fort] Reyriz, as it goes right into the neck of Castro Mao

6. an ancient local currency
   • 1396, Alexandra Cabana Outeiro, editor, O Tombo H da catedral de Santiago. Documentos anteriores a 1397, Valga: Concello de Valga, page 140:

     os quaes moravedís eu por noso mandado fisen troquar a ouro a XXXIIJ moravedís e medio o franquo, e a coroa a trijnta e sete moravedís, Jtem as dobras castelãas a trijnta e oyto moravedís e medio, jtem doblas mouriscas a trijnta e sete moravedís e medio, jtem frolíjns d'Aragón vijnte e dous moravedís e medio, jtem ducates a trijnta e dous moravedís e medio

     I ordered to exchange in gold the aforementioned sum of maravedis: 33 mo. and a half each franc; each crown 37 mo.; item, each Castilian dobla 38 mo. and a half; each Moorish dobla 37 mo. and a half; item, florins from Aragon, 22 mo. and a half; item, ducats, 32 mo. and a half

7. tonsure

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “coroa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coroa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “coroa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “coroa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “coroa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

coroa

1. inflection of coroar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Rhymes: -oɐ
• Hyphenation: co‧ro‧a

From Old Galician-Portuguese corõa (“crown”), from Latin corōna, from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “garland, wreath”), from Proto-Indo-European *kor, *ker. Doublet of corona.

• corôa (obsolete)

coroa f (plural coroas)

1. crown (royal, imperial or princely headdress)
2. crown (imperial or regal power, or those who wield it)
3. (heraldry) crown (as depicted above a coat of arms)
4. (dentistry) crown (prosthetic covering for a tooth)
5. tails (reverse side of a coin)

   Antonym: cara

6. crown (any of various coins or currencies, including the krone, krona, koruna)

coroa m or f by sense (plural coroas)

1. (Brazil, colloquial) an elderly or middle-aged person

• → Portuguese: koroa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

coroa

1. inflection of coroar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “coroa”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “coroa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025