corollary

English

Etymology

FromMiddle English,fromLate Latincorōllārium(“money paid for a garland; gift, gratuity, corollary; consequence, deduction”),fromcorōlla(“small garland”),diminutive ofcorōna(“crown”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/kɒˈɹɒləɹi/,/ˈkɒɹələɹi/
• (US)enPR:kôr'əlĕrē,IPA^(key):/ˈkɔɹəˌlɛɹi/
• (General Australian)IPA^(key):/kɔˈɹoʊˌlɛɹi/

• Audio(Southern England):

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Noun

corollary(pluralcorollaries)

1. A gift beyond what is actually due; an addition orsuperfluity.
2. Ana fortiorioccurrence, as a result of another effort without significant additional effort.

   Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nicecorollaryof redoing the whole storefront.

3. (mathematics,logic)Apropositionwhichfollowseasily from the statement or proof of another proposition.

   We have proven that this set is finite and well ordered; as acorollary,we now know that there is an order-preserving map from it to the natural numbers.

Derived terms

• corollary relief
• subcorollary

Translations

proposition which follows easily

• Bulgarian:извод(bg)m(izvod),следствие(bg)n(sledstvie)
• Catalan:corol·lari(ca)m
• Chinese:Thôi luận
• Czech:důsledek(cs)m
• Danish:korollarn
• Dutch:gevolg(nl)n,gevolgtrekking(nl)f,uitvloeisel(nl)n
• Finnish:seuraus(fi),korollaari(fi),luonnollinenseuraus
• French:corollaire(fr)m,corolaire(fr)m
• German:Korollar(de)n,Folgesatzm
• Greek:πόρισμα(el)n(pórisma)

  Ancient:πόρῐσμᾰn(pórisma),προσπόρῐσμᾰn(prospórisma)

• Hebrew:מסקנה(he)f(maskaná)
• Hungarian:szükségszerű következmény,származékos tétel,velejáró(hu),következmény(hu),folyomány(hu),korollárium(hu)
• Icelandic:fylgisetningf
• Irish:atoradhm
• Italian:corollario(it)m
• Japanese:Hệ(ja)(kei, けい)
• Macedonian:короларm(korolar)
• Persian:فرع(fa)
• Polish:następstwo(pl)n
• Portuguese:corolário(pt)m
• Romanian:corolar(ro)n
• Russian:сле́дствие(ru)n(slédstvije)
• Spanish:corolario(es)m
• Swedish:följdsats(sv)c,korollarium(sv)n
• Tagalog:hugpungin
• Welsh:canlyniad(cy)m,canlyniadau(cy)mpl

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Adjective

corollary(notcomparable)

1. Occurring as a naturalconsequenceor result;attendant;consequential.
   • 2019,Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, inJournal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development,→DOI,page11:

     However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers who are obliged to navigate an often time-consuming and complex series of administrative requirements andcorollaryreview processes in order to be granted ethics clearance.

2. (rare)Forming apropositionthat follows from one already proved.

Further reading

• “corollary”,inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
• “corollary”,inThe Century Dictionary[…],New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,1911,→OCLC.