χορός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoros, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“catch, enclose”), with some original meaning of "encircling/ring (dance)", whence χόρτος (khórtos, “enclosure”) and Latin cohors, with comparable meanings (multitude, troop).

Pronunciation

Noun

χορός • (khorós) m (genitive χοροῦ); second declension

1. dance ring; round dance
2. dance accompanied by song; choral dance
3. chorus, choir, band of singers and dancers
4. band, troop, group
5. row
6. place for dancing

   Synonym: χορεῖον (khoreîon)

7. (theater) Chorus

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἄχορος (ákhoros)

Descendants

• Greek: χορός m (chorós)
• → Latin: chorus m (see there for further descendants)
• → Georgian: ხორუმი (xorumi)
• → Russian: хор m (xor)
• → Hebrew: הוֹרָה f
• → Esperanto: ĥoro
• → Serbo-Croatian: о́ро n, óro
• → Bulgarian: хоро (horo)
  • → Romanian: horă f

Further reading

• “χορός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χορός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “χορός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• χορός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• χορός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “χορός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5525 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • band idem, page 60.
  • choir idem, page 131.
  • choral idem, page 131.
  • chorus idem, page 131.
  • company idem, page 150.
  • dance idem, page 194.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• χορός - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χορός (khorós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xoˈɾos/

Noun

χορός • (chorós) m (plural χοροί)

1. dance
2. chorus in a performance of Ancient Greek drama

Declension

Related terms

• χορευτής m (choreftís, “dancer”)
• χορεύτρια f (choréftria, “dancer”)
• χορεύω (chorévo, “to dance”)
• σέρνω το χορό (sérno to choró, “lead a dance line, be a ringleader”)

Further reading

• χορός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el
• χορός - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.