chorea
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía).
Pronunciation
Noun
chorea (countable and uncountable, plural choreas or choreae or choreæ)
- An Ancient Greek circular dance accompanied by a chorus.
- (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
Related terms
Translations
an Ancient Greek circular dance
disease of the nervous system
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía, “dance; circling motion”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kʰoˈreː.a/, [kʰɔˈreːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /koˈre.a/, [koˈrɛːä]
Noun
chorēa f (genitive chorēae); first declension
- (usually in the plural) A dance in a ring, round dance.
- (metonymically) A round dance of the circular motions of the stars.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Related terms
- choricus
- chorus
Descendants
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’s 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
Verb
chorea
- inflection of chorear:
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