χορός

See also: Χορός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Likely from a Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoros, from a root *ǵʰer-, though the semantic identity of this root has been disputed:^[1]

• From *ǵʰer- (“to seize, catch, enclose”), with some original meaning of "encircling/ring (dance)", whence χόρτος (khórtos, “enclosure”) and Latin cohors, with comparable meanings (multitude, troop).
• From *ǵʰer- (“to yearn for”), whence also χαίρω (khaírō, “to rejoice”).
• From a *ǵʰer- of uncertain interpretation, though related to Lithuanian žãras (“row, twig”); this could be identical to the "seize" meaning above.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰo.rós/ → /xoˈros/ → /xoˈros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰo.rós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰoˈros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xoˈros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xoˈros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xoˈros/

Noun

χορός • (khorós) m (genitive χοροῦ); second declension

1. dance ring; round dance
2. dance accompanied by song; choral dance
3. chorus, choir, band of singers and dancers
4. band, troop, group
5. row
6. place for dancing

   Synonym: χορεῖον (khoreîon)

7. (theater) Chorus

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ χορός ho khorós	τὼ χορώ tṑ khorṓ	οἱ χοροί hoi khoroí
Genitive	τοῦ χοροῦ toû khoroû	τοῖν χοροῖν toîn khoroîn	τῶν χορῶν tôn khorôn
Dative	τῷ χορῷ tôi khorôi	τοῖν χοροῖν toîn khoroîn	τοῖς χοροῖς toîs khoroîs
Accusative	τὸν χορόν tòn khorón	τὼ χορώ tṑ khorṓ	τοὺς χορούς toùs khoroús
Vocative	χορέ khoré	χορώ khorṓ	χοροί khoroí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Second declension of ὁ χορός; τοῦ χοροῦ (Attic)

Derived terms

• ἄχορος (ákhoros)
• χορεύω (khoreúō)

Descendants

• Greek: χορός m (chorós)
• → Latin: chorus m (see there for further descendants)
• → Georgian: ხორუმი (xorumi)
• → Russian: хор m (xor)
• → Hebrew: הוֹרָה f
• → Esperanto: ĥoro
• → Serbo-Croatian: о́ро n, óro
• → Bulgarian: хоро (horo)
  • → Romanian: horă f

References

1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χορός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1644

Further reading

• “χορός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χορός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “χορός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• χορός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• χορός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “χορός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5525 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • band idem, page 60.
  • choir idem, page 131.
  • choral idem, page 131.
  • chorus idem, page 131.
  • company idem, page 150.
  • dance idem, page 194.
• “χορός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χορός (khorós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xoˈɾos/

Noun

χορός • (chorós) m (plural χοροί)

1. dance
2. chorus in a performance of Ancient Greek drama

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	χορός •	χοροί •
genitive	χορού •	χορών •
accusative	χορό •	χορούς •
vocative	χορέ •	χοροί •

Declension of χορός

Related terms

• χορευτής m (choreftís, “dancer”)
• χορεύτρια f (choréftria, “dancer”)
• χορεύω (chorévo, “to dance”)
• σέρνω το χορό (sérno to choró, “lead a dance line, be a ringleader”)

Further reading

• χορός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el
• χορός, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language