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

1. dance
2. chorea

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.
  • choral idem, page 131.
  • dance idem, page 194.