chorea

See also: choreá

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːə

Noun

chorea (countable and uncountable, plural choreas or choreae or choreæ)

1. An Ancient Greek circular dance accompanied by a chorus.
2. (medicine) Any of the various diseases of the nervous system characterized by involuntary muscular movements of the face and extremities; St. Vitus's dance.

Derived terms

• Huntington's chorea
• Sydenham's chorea

Related terms

• chorein
• choreography
• choreiform movements
• chorus

Translations

an Ancient Greek circular dance

• Czech: tanec svatého Víta m
• Finnish: horos
• German: Reigentanz m, Veitstanz (de) m

• Portuguese: coreia (pt) f
• Russian: хорово́д (ru) m (xorovód) (the Russian variety, khorovod)
• Slovak: tanec svätého Víta m

disease of the nervous system

• Catalan: corea f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 舞蹈病 (zh) (wǔdǎobìng)

• Czech: tanec svatého Víta m
• Danish: sanktvejtsdans c
• Faroese: vitusardansur m
• Finnish: korea (fi), tanssitauti (fi)
• German: Chorea f

• Greek: χορεία (el) f (choreía)
• Italian: corea (it) f
• Japanese: 舞踏病 (ぶとうびょう, butōbyō), 舞踏運動 (ぶとううんどう, butō undō)
• Polish: pląsawica (pl) f
• Portuguese: coreia (pt) f
• Russian: ви́ттова пля́ска f (víttova pljáska), пля́ска свято́го Ви́тта f (pljáska svjatóvo Vítta), хоре́я (ru) f (xoréja)
• Slovak: tanec svätého Víta m
• Spanish: corea (es)

Anagrams

• HORECA, HoReCa, Horace, Roache, archeo-, ochrea, orache

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía, “dance; circling motion”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʰoˈreː.a/, [kʰɔˈɾeːä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈre.a/, [kɔˈɾɛːɑ]

Noun

chorēa f (genitive chorēae); first declension

1. (usually in the plural) A dance in a ring, round dance.
2. (metonymically) A round dance of the circular motions of the stars.

Declension

In prosody, chorēa is sometimes written as chorea without a macron. First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	chorēa	chorēae
Genitive	chorēae	chorēārum
Dative	chorēae	chorēīs
Accusative	chorēam	chorēās
Ablative	chorēā	chorēīs
Vocative	chorēa	chorēae

Related terms

• choricus
• chorus

Descendants

• Catalan: corea
• French: chorée
• Italian: corea
• Portuguese: coreia
• Spanish: corea

References

• chorea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
• chorea in Charlton T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891
• chorea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• chorea in Gaffiot, Félix, Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, 1934
• chorea in The Perseus Project, Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1], 1999

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Spanish

Verb

chorea

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of chorear.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of chorear.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of chorear.