χορευτής

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From χορεύω (khoreúō, “to dance a choral dance”) +‎ -τής (-tḗs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰo.reu̯.tɛ̌ːs/ → /xo.reɸˈtis/ → /xo.refˈtis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰo.reu̯.tɛ̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰo.rewˈte̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xo.reɸˈtis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xo.refˈtis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xo.refˈtis/

Noun

χορευτής • (khoreutḗs) m (genitive χορευτοῦ); first declension

1. a choral dancer
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 12.27
   • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 443
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 373B
   • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, Against Alcibiades 20
   • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 173A
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 252D
   • 331 CE – 363 CE, Julian, Orations 6.197D
   • 314 CE – 393 CE, Libanius, Orations 54.38
   1. an epithet of Pan
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Fragments 99
   2. an epithet of Dionysus
   3. dolphin
      • 100 BCE – 600 CE, Anacreontea 5.24
   4. cicada
      • 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, On the Nature of Animals 1.20

Inflection

First declension of ὁ χορευτής; τοῦ χορευτοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ χορευτής ho khoreutḗs	τὼ χορευτᾱ́ tṑ khoreutā́	οἱ χορευταί hoi khoreutaí
Genitive	τοῦ χορευτοῦ toû khoreutoû	τοῖν χορευταῖν toîn khoreutaîn	τῶν χορευτῶν tôn khoreutôn
Dative	τῷ χορευτῇ tôi khoreutêi	τοῖν χορευταῖν toîn khoreutaîn	τοῖς χορευταῖς toîs khoreutaîs
Accusative	τὸν χορευτήν tòn khoreutḗn	τὼ χορευτᾱ́ tṑ khoreutā́	τοὺς χορευτᾱ́ς toùs khoreutā́s
Vocative	χορευτᾰ́ khoreutá	χορευτᾱ́ khoreutā́	χορευταί khoreutaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: χορευτής (choreftís)

Further reading

• “χορευτής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χορευτής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χορευτής 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • chorus idem, page 131.
  • dancer idem, page 194.

Greek

Etymology

Inherited from Ancient Greek χορευτής (khoreutḗs).

Noun

χορευτής • (choreftís) m (plural χορευτές, feminine χορεύτρια)

1. dancer

Declension

Declension of χορευτής

	singular	plural
nominative	χορευτής •	χορευτές •
genitive	χορευτή •	χορευτών •
accusative	χορευτή •	χορευτές •
vocative	χορευτή •	χορευτές •

Related terms

• see: χορός m (chorós, “dance”)