chorea

See also: choreá and Chorea

English

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Chorea (dance)

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Chorea (disease)

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹi.ə/, [kʰɵˈɹi.ə]
• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹiːə/, [kʰɵˈɹiːə]
• Homophone: Korea
• Rhymes: -iːə

Noun

chorea (countable and uncountable, plural choreas or choreae or choreæ)

1. An Ancient Greek circular dance accompanied by a chorus.
2. (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

• chorea-acanthocytosis
• chorea gravidarum
• choreal
• choreatic
• choreic
• choreiform
• choreiform movements
• chorein
• choreoathetosis
• choreoid
• hemichorea
• Huntington's chorea
• monochorea
• Sydenham's chorea

 

Related terms

• choreo-
  • choreodrama
  • choreography
  • choreomania
• chorus
• subchoreal

Translations

an Ancient Greek circular dance

Czech: tanec svatého Víta m Esperanto: ĥoreo Finnish: horos German: Reigentanz m, Veitstanz (de) m Portuguese: coreia (pt) f Russian: хорово́д (ru) m (xorovód) (the Russian variety, khorovod) Slovak: tanec svätého Víta m

disease of the nervous system

Catalan: corea f Chinese: Mandarin: 舞蹈病 (zh) (wǔdǎobìng) Czech: tanec svatého Víta m Danish: sanktvejtsdans c Faroese: vitusardansur m Finnish: korea (fi), tanssitauti (fi) Galician: corea f, tremesía f German: Chorea f Greek: χορεία (el) f (choreía) Italian: corea (it) f Japanese: 舞踏病 (ぶとうびょう, butōbyō), 舞踏運動 (ぶとううんどう, butō undō) Persian: رقصاک (fa) (raqsâk), داءالرقص (dâ'-or-raqs) Polish: pląsawica (pl) f Portuguese: coreia (pt) f Russian: ви́ттова пля́ска f (víttova pljáska), пля́ска свято́го Ви́тта (ru) f (pljáska svjatóvo Vítta), хоре́я (ru) f (xoréja) Slovak: tanec svätého Víta m Spanish: corea (es)

Anagrams

• HORECA, HoReCa, Horace, Roache, archeo-, ochrea, orache

Latin

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

1. (usually in the plural) A dance in a ring, round dance.
2. (metonymically) A round dance of the circular motions of the stars.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	chorēa	chorēae
genitive	chorēae	chorēārum
dative	chorēae	chorēīs
accusative	chorēam	chorēās
ablative	chorēā	chorēīs
vocative	chorēa	chorēae

Related terms

• choricus
• chorus

Descendants

• Catalan: corea
• French: chorée
• Italian: corea
• Portuguese: coreia
• Spanish: corea

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

Spanish

Verb

chorea

1. inflection of chorear:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative