to crown someone (see Molina)
(at root, a loanword from Spanish, corona, crown)
Alonso de Molina:
coronatia. nite. (pret. onitecoronati.) coronar a alguno, o ordenarle de corona. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 24v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.