χορεία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From χορός (khorós, “dance, choir”) +‎ -είᾱ (-eíā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰo.rěː.aː/ → /xoˈri.a/ → /xoˈri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰo.rěː.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰoˈri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xoˈri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xoˈri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xoˈri.a/

Noun

χορείᾱ • (khoreíā) f (genitive χορείᾱς); first declension

1. dance, especially choral dance with music
2. any circling motion, as of stars
3. dance-tune

Declension

First declension of ἡ χορείᾱ; τῆς χορείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χορείᾱ hē khoreíā	τὼ χορείᾱ tṑ khoreíā	αἱ χορεῖαι hai khoreîai
Genitive	τῆς χορείᾱς tês khoreíās	τοῖν χορείαιν toîn khoreíain	τῶν χορειῶν tôn khoreiôn
Dative	τῇ χορείᾳ têi khoreíāi	τοῖν χορείαιν toîn khoreíain	ταῖς χορείαις taîs khoreíais
Accusative	τὴν χορείᾱν tḕn khoreíān	τὼ χορείᾱ tṑ khoreíā	τᾱ̀ς χορείᾱς tā̀s khoreíās
Vocative	χορείᾱ khoreíā	χορείᾱ khoreíā	χορεῖαι khoreîai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: chorea
• → Latin: chorea
  • Catalan: corea
  • French: chorée
  • Italian: corea
  • Portuguese: coreia
  • Spanish: corea

Further reading

• “χορεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χορεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χορεία 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.
  • choral idem, page 131.
  • dance idem, page 194.