syrtos
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Greek συρτός (syrtós), Koine Greek συρτός (surtós), noun use of Ancient Greek συρτός (surtós, “dragging along”), from σύρειν (súrein, “to drag along, sweep away”).
Noun[edit]
syrtos
- A folk dance of classical and modern Greece.
- 1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 78:
- He was drawn into a dance, a syrtos of the young people of Lixouri.