Other forms: coronets
A coronet is a small crown worn by a noble. A jewelled coronet, wear a coronet, the earl's coronet.
British peers wear them only at coronations, and the design says the rank — the number of balls and strawberry leaves is fixed for each degree of the peerage, so a coronet is a rank badge as much as an ornament. Note that the word is a diminutive of crown, so a coronet is literally a little crown.
1nouncoronetA small crown worn by a noble.
“At the coronation, each duke wore a coronet of gold and red velvet.”
coronet is a crown.
Old French coronete is a diminutive of corone, a crown, from Latin corona. Crown and corona come from the same circle.
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)ker- (turn)
Ancient Greek
κορώνη — 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
Latin
corona
Old French
coronete
Middle French
couronnette
English, today
coronet
Built from
From Middle French couronnette, from Old French coronete, diminutive of corone (“crown”), from Latin corona, from Ancient Greek κορώνη (“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”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA