CORONATOR

coronator (kor- orkahr-[schwa]-nay-t[schwa]r). [fr. Latin corona “crown”] A coroner. See CORONER(2). “The formal title of custos (or occasionally conservator) placitorum corone continued to be used throughout the Middle Ages, but the more convenient shorter forms coronarius, which was confined to a short period around 1200, and CORONATOR rapidly gained greater currency. The English form was […]