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corollary noun [ kəˈrɒləri ]

• a proposition that follows from (and is often appended to) one already proved.

corollary adjective

• forming a proposition that follows from one already proved.
Origin: 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’.


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