chorea

See also: choreá and Chorea

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía).

Pronunciation

• (South Asia) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰorɪjɑ/, /kʰɵˈrɪjɑ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹi.ə/, [kʰɵˈɹi.ə]
• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹiːə/, [kʰɵˈɹiːə]

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: Korea (most accents)
• Rhymes: -iːə

Noun

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

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

   Hypernym: dyskinesia

Derived terms

• chorea-acanthocytosis
• chorea gravidarum
• choreal
• choreatic
• choreic
• choreiform
• choreiform movements
• chorein
• choreoathetosis
• choreoid
• hemichorea
• Huntington's chorea
• monochorea
• Sydenham's chorea

Related terms

• choreo-
  • choreodrama
  • choreography
  • choreomania
• chorus
• subchoreal

Translations

an Ancient Greek circular dance

• Czech: tanec svatého Víta m
• Esperanto: ĥoreo
• 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)
• Galician: corea f, tremesía f
• German: Chorea f
• Greek: χορεία (el) f (choreía)
• Indonesian: korea (id)
• 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)
• Persian: رقصاک (fa) (raqsâk), داءالرقص (dâ'-or-raqs)
• Polish: pląsawica (pl) f
• Portuguese: coreia (pt) f
• Russian: ви́ттова пля́ска f (víttova pljáska), пля́ска свято́го Ви́тта (ru) f (pljáska svjatóvo Vítta), хоре́я (ru) f (xoréja)
• Slovak: tanec svätého Víta m
• Spanish: corea (es)

Anagrams

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

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer-der.?

Ancient Greek χορός (khorós)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)

Ancient Greek -είᾱ (-eíā)

Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía)bor.

Latin chorēa

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʰɔˈreː.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koˈrɛː.a]

Noun

chorēa f (genitive chorēae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

	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 (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “chorea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "chorea", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “chorea”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “chorea”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]

Spanish

Verb

chorea

1. inflection of chorear:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative