Coronis
κορωνίς
Coronis (κορωνίς), the cornice of an entablature, is properly a Greek word signifying anything curved (Schol. ad Aristoph. Pl. 253; Hesych. sub voce). It is also used by Latin writers, but the genuine Latin word for a cornice is corona or coronix. (Vitr. 5.2, 3.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.