χορός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Has traditionally been derived from a Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“catch”), cognate to χόρτος (khórtos, “enclosure”) and Sanskrit हरति (harati). However, the word is phonetically identical to Lithuanian žaras, and so could perhaps be from a Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoros.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰo.rós/ → /xoˈros/ → /xoˈros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰo.rós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰoˈros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xoˈros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xoˈros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xoˈros/

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

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ χορός; τοῦ χοροῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ χορός ho khorós	τὼ χορώ tṑ khorṓ	οἱ χοροί hoi khoroí
Genitive	τοῦ χοροῦ toû khoroû	τοῖν χοροῖν toîn khoroîn	τῶν χορῶν tôn khorôn
Dative	τῷ χορῷ tôi khorôi	τοῖν χοροῖν toîn khoroîn	τοῖς χοροῖς toîs khoroîs
Accusative	τὸν χορόν tòn khorón	τὼ χορώ tṑ khorṓ	τοὺς χορούς toùs khoroús
Vocative	χορέ khoré	χορώ khorṓ	χοροί khoroí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: χορός m (chorós)
• → Latin: chorus
• → Russian: хор m (xor)

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^[1], 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

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Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χορός (khorós).

Noun

χορός • (chorós) m (plural χοροί)

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

Declension

declension of χορός

case     \     number	singular	plural
nominative	χορός •	χοροί •
genitive	χορού •	χορών •
accusative	χορό •	χορούς •
vocative	χορέ •	χοροί •

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”)