Other forms: coronations
A coronation is the ceremony at which a monarch is crowned. The coronation service, watch the coronation, coronation year.
In Britain it happens some months after the accession, because the reign begins immediately on the death of the previous monarch and the ceremony is separate. The service includes anointing, investing and crowning, and has been held at Westminster Abbey since 1066. Note coronation chicken, invented for the 1953 coronation; and that most European monarchies have replaced coronations with simpler inaugurations.
1nouncoronationThe ceremony at which a monarch is crowned.
“Crowds lined the streets of London for the queen's coronation in 1953.”
coronation is a crowning ceremony.
Latin coronatio comes from corona, a crown or wreath — the same root as coroner, who was the guardian of the crown's interests, and corona, the sun's outer atmosphere.
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)ker-
Latin
*corōnātiōnem
Old French
coronacion
Anglo-Norman
coronacion
Middle English
coronacion
English, today
coronation
Built from
From Late Middle English coronacion, coronacioun (“crowning of a sovereign or his consort; powers conferred by this ceremony; crowning of the Virgin Mary; (figuratively) placing of a crown of thorns on Jesus; act of rewarding a person with eternal life, happiness, honour, etc.”)corenacioun, corenacyon, coronacyon, coronacyone, coronatyown, borrowed from Anglo-Norman coronacion and Old French coronacion, coronation, from Latin corōnātiōnem, from Latin corōnō (“to coronate, crown (with a crown, garland, etc.)”) + -ātiōnem. Corōnō is derived from corōna (“garland, wreath; crown”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA