corollary

 
Pronunciation: /kəˈrɒləri/

noun (plural corollaries)

  • a proposition that follows from (and is often appended to) one already proved.
  • a direct or natural consequence or result: the huge increases in unemployment were the corollary of expenditure cuts

adjective

  • forming a proposition that follows from one already proved.
  • associated or supplementary: the court did not answer a corollary question

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'