Talk:Circlet

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Scope[edit]

I think the type of circlet that's more jewelry-like than crown-like should be covered on this page as well.Alcy 08:17, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Translation[edit]

The article currently says:

(known in greek as stephanos, and in latin as corona operta, or simply "open crown")

But operta actually means something more like "closed." "Open" is aperta, a different, but related word. I should probably mention that the Latin corona and Greek stephanos are normally considered equivalent, so if there's a two-word name in Latin, there's probably a parallel two-word name in Greek. --Iustinus (talk) 16:16, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Definition[edit]

This is an odd one because the definition of a circlet has changed over time. St Edward's Crown was not regarded as a circlet his day; a circlet was like a diadem or laurel wreath. It is now used to refer to the base of an imperial crown. I have also seen the rim of a coronet referred to as a circlet. Finding sources which state all this explicitly is not easy. Firebrace (talk) 10:10, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]