χόριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer-, the same root of χορδή (khordḗ, “guts, intestine”) and Latin hernia (“protruded viscus”). However, Beekes finds this proposal unconvincing.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰó.ri.on/ → /ˈxo.ri.on/ → /ˈxo.ri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰó.ri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰo.ri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈxo.ri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈxo.ri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈxo.ri.on/

Noun

χόρῐον • (khórion) n (genitive χορίου); second declension

1. (anatomy) afterbirth, placenta
2. any intestinal membrane
   1. (in the plural) dish filled with milk and honey, kind of pudding similar to haggis
3. membrane round the inside of the egg

Declension

Second declension of τὸ χόρῐον; τοῦ χορῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ χόρῐον tò khórion	τὼ χορῐ́ω tṑ khoríō	τᾰ̀ χόρῐᾰ tà khória
Genitive	τοῦ χορῐ́ου toû khoríou	τοῖν χορῐ́οιν toîn khoríoin	τῶν χορῐ́ων tôn khoríōn
Dative	τῷ χορῐ́ῳ tôi khoríōi	τοῖν χορῐ́οιν toîn khoríoin	τοῖς χορῐ́οις toîs khoríois
Accusative	τὸ χόρῐον tò khórion	τὼ χορῐ́ω tṑ khoríō	τᾰ̀ χόρῐᾰ tà khória
Vocative	χόρῐον khórion	χορῐ́ω khoríō	χόρῐᾰ khória
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: χόριο (chório)
• → English: chorion (learned)

Further reading

• “χόριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χόριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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