Timeline for "corollarily" or equivalent?
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| Apr 6, 2014 at 6:06 | comment | added | insaner | I looked it up real quick, and found that the etymology of "corollary" is: from Latin corollarium ‘money paid for a garland or chaplet; gratuity’ (in late Latin ‘deduction’), from corolla, diminutive of corona ‘wreath, crown, chaplet.’. but it is true that it could quite effectively (though not perfectly) be replaced by "consequently", but not really as much with "correspondingly". | |
| Apr 5, 2014 at 18:51 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | While it is true that not every adjective can be made into an adverb by adding -ly, I don’t see why doing so here would cause you to “enter a never-ending spiral”. Assuming that corollary is being used as an adjective, I can’t see any reason why an adverbial corollarily could not be quite transparently created. | |
| Apr 5, 2014 at 10:56 | comment | added | Mynamite | So would the correct adverb be correlationally? Or correlatively! | |
| Apr 5, 2014 at 10:52 | history | answered | Tim Lymington | CC BY-SA 3.0 |