coronet

From Middle French couronnette, from Old French coronete, diminutive of corone (“crown”), from Latin corona, from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “a type of sea-bird, perhaps shearwater; a crow; anything curved or hooked (like a door handle or the tip of a bow); a type of crown”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒɹənɪt/, /kɒɹəˈnɛt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹənɪt/, /kɔɹəˈnɛt/

coronet (plural coronets)

An earl's coronet.

1. A small crown, such as is worn by a noble.
   • 1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Canto I”, in Queen Mab; […], London: […] P. B. Shelley, […], →OCLC, page 6:

     [T]he fair star / That gems the glittering coronet of morn, / Sheds not a light so mild, so powerful, / As that which, bursting from the Fairy's form, / Spread a purpureal halo round the scene, / Yet with an undulating motion, / Swayed to her outline gracefully.

   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Lady Clara Vere de Vere”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 158:

     Kind hearts are more than coronets, / And simple faith than Norman blood.

2. The ring of tissue between a horse's hoof and its leg.
3. The traditional lowest regular commissioned officer rank in the cavalry.
4. Any of several hummingbirds in the genus Boissonneaua.
5. A species of moth, Craniophora ligustri.

(junior commissioned officer):

• ensign (infantry equivalent of the cavalry coronet)
• second lieutenant (OF-1), first NATO commissioned officer grade above OF-0 trainee officer

• Crotone

corōnet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of corōnō