" cornice "

[Noun]  | "cor*nice" | \ ˈkȯr-nəs \

1: the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition

2: a top course that crowns a wall

3: a decorative band of metal or wood used to conceal curtain fixtures

Origin: 1563 ;

 Earlier cornish, borrowed from Middle French corniche, borrowed from Italian cornice "cornice on a column," earlier, "ledge projecting from a rock wall," perhaps going back to Latin cornīc-, cornīx "crow" (assuming a figurative sense "projection, something jutting out" in Vulgar Latin), derivative (with -īc-, -ix, particularizing suffix), from a base *kor-n-, perhaps from the oblique of an n-stem *kor-ōn see:n in Greek korṓnē "crow"; the base *kor- "corvid," with different suffixation, see:n also in Umbrian curnaco "crow," Greek korak-, kórax "raven," Latin corvus "raven," and, if going back to Indo-European *ḱor-, Russian soróka "magpie," Polish sroka, Serbian & Croatian svrȁka (with secondary -v-), Lithuanian šárka (from Balto-Slavic *ḱor-Hk-), Sanskrit śāri- "kind of bird";

  * Note : For an association between something projecting and a corvid cf. the etymology of {corbel:1|corbel:1}. Italian cornice has also been see:n as an outcome of Greek korōnid-, korōnís "crook-beaked, curved, curved pen stroke, copestone (in the lexicographer Hesychius)," though phonologically this is implausible. The base *kor-/*ḱor- is ultimately onomatopoeic, perhaps an expansion of *kr-, the initial of other independently derived Indo-European words for corvid birds (cf. {crow:1|crow:1}, {raven:1|raven:1}).;

[Verb]  | "cornice" 

1: to furnish or crown with a cornice

Origin: 1744 ;

 Derivative of {see: |cornice:1|cornice:1};

[Noun]  | "cornice"