χόριον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unexplained. Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer-, the same root of χορδή (khordḗ, “guts, intestine”) and Latin hernia (“protruded viscus”). However, Beekes finds this proposal unconvincing.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰó.ri.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkʰo.ri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈxo.ri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈxo.ri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈxo.ri.on/
Noun
χόρῐον • (khórion) n (genitive χορίου); second declension
- (anatomy) afterbirth, placenta
- any intestinal membrane
- membrane round the inside of the egg
- (in the plural) dish filled with milk and honey, kind of pudding
Declension
Second declension of τὸ χόρῐον; τοῦ χορῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ χόρῐον tò khórion | τὼ χορῐ́ω tṑ khoríō | τᾰ̀ χόρῐᾰ tà khória | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ χορῐ́ου toû khoríou | τοῖν χορῐ́οιν toîn khoríoin | τῶν χορῐ́ων tôn khoríōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ χορῐ́ῳ tôi khoríōi | τοῖν χορῐ́οιν toîn khoríoin | τοῖς χορῐ́οις toîs khoríois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ χόρῐον tò khórion | τὼ χορῐ́ω tṑ khoríō | τᾰ̀ χόρῐᾰ tà khória | ||||||||||
Vocative | χόρῐον khórion | χορῐ́ω khoríō | χόρῐᾰ khória | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: χόριο (chório)
Further reading
- χόριον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- χόριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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