Crowner
/ˈkraʊnər/noun
An old or dialectal word for a coroner.
Did you know?“Crowner” is a medieval English form of **coroner**, and the shift reflects how the office became associated with the Crown’s legal authority over sudden or suspicious deaths.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*sker-
“to turn, bend”
Latin
Latin
corona
“garland, wreath, crown”
Old French
OF
corone
“crown”
Middle English
ME
coroner
“an officer of the Crown responsible for legal inquiries into deaths”
Middle English
ME
crowner
“dialectal form of coroner”
Modern English
English
crowner
“a coroner”