corollary
Meaning of corollary
noun
a proposition that follows from (and is often appended to) one already proved.
adjective
forming a proposition that follows from one already proved.
late Middle English: from Latin corollarium ‘money paid for a garland or chaplet; gratuity’ (in late Latin ‘deduction’), from corolla, diminutive of corona ‘wreath, crown, chaplet’.
Information about corollary
- The plural form of corollary is: corollaries.
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Hyphenation of corollary
corol-lary
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- corollary is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Translation of corollary
- Italian: corollario
- French: corollaire
- Spanish: corolario
- Portuguese: corolário
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