χορεία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to grasp, enclose”), if the original sense of the Greek word is “enclosed dancing floor”.
Noun
χορεία • (khoreía) f (genitive χορείας); ? declension
Descendants
- English: choreography
- English: chorea
References
- “χορεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χορεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- χορεία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.