χῶρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

This entry is compared to χώρα (khṓra), but both were taken from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

Noun

χῶρος • (khôros) m (genitive χώρου); second declension

1. space, room, place (in which a thing is)
2. dwelling place
3. locality
4. station
5. district, region, territory, country, land
6. field, farm, estate
7. northeast wind

Declension

Synonyms

• χώρα (khṓra)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Greek: χώρος (chóros)
• →? Old Georgian: ქორი (kori, “(room) upstairs; home”) (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “χῶρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χῶρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “χῶρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• χῶρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• χῶρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “χῶρος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5566 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.
  • place idem, page 616.
  • situation idem, page 780.
  • space idem, page 797.
  • spot idem, page 804.