χορεία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From χορός (khorós, “dance, choir”) + -είᾱ (-eíā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰo.rěː.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰoˈri.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /xoˈri.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /xoˈri.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /xoˈri.a/
Noun
χορείᾱ • (khoreíā) f (genitive χορείᾱς); first declension
- dance, especially choral dance with music
- any circling motion, as of stars
- dance-tune
Declension
First declension of ἡ χορείᾱ; τῆς χορείᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ χορείᾱ hē khoreíā | τὼ χορείᾱ tṑ khoreíā | αἱ χορεῖαι hai khoreîai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς χορείᾱς tês khoreíās | τοῖν χορείαιν toîn khoreíain | τῶν χορειῶν tôn khoreiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ χορείᾳ têi khoreíāi | τοῖν χορείαιν toîn khoreíain | ταῖς χορείαις taîs khoreíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν χορείᾱν tḕn khoreíān | τὼ χορείᾱ tṑ khoreíā | τᾱ̀ς χορείᾱς tā̀s khoreíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | χορείᾱ khoreíā | χορείᾱ khoreíā | χορεῖαι khoreîai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → English: chorea
- → Latin: chorea
- Catalan: corea
- French: chorée
- Italian: corea
- Portuguese: coreia
- Spanish: corea
Further reading
- “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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- choral idem, page 131.
- dance idem, page 194.