χορηγός

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 9 July 2017

Alternative forms

• χορᾱγός (khorāgós)

Etymology

From χορός (khorós, “chorus”) +‎ ἄγω (ágō, “to lead”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰo.rɛː.ɡós/ → /xo.riˈɣos/ → /xo.riˈɣos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰo.rɛː.ɡós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰo.re̝ˈɡos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xo.riˈɣos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xo.riˈɣos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xo.riˈɣos/

Noun

χορηγός • (khorēgós) m (genitive χορηγοῦ); second declension

1. a chorus leader, who could enter the story as a character able to interact with the characters of a play
2. generally, the leader of a train or band
3. in Athens, one who defrays the cost of a performance
4. generally, one who supplies financial backing for any endeavour

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ χορηγός; τοῦ χορηγοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ χορηγός ho khorēgós	τὼ χορηγώ tṑ khorēgṓ	οἱ χορηγοί hoi khorēgoí
Genitive	τοῦ χορηγοῦ toû khorēgoû	τοῖν χορηγοῖν toîn khorēgoîn	τῶν χορηγῶν tôn khorēgôn
Dative	τῷ χορηγῷ tôi khorēgôi	τοῖν χορηγοῖν toîn khorēgoîn	τοῖς χορηγοῖς toîs khorēgoîs
Accusative	τὸν χορηγόν tòn khorēgón	τὼ χορηγώ tṑ khorēgṓ	τοὺς χορηγούς toùs khorēgoús
Vocative	χορηγέ khorēgé	χορηγώ khorēgṓ	χορηγοί khorēgoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → French: chorège
• → English: choregus
• Greek: χορηγός m (chorigós, “benefactor”)

Further reading

• “χορηγός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χορηγός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χορηγός 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.
  • paymaster idem, page 600.
• “χορηγός”, 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 χορηγός (khorēgós, “chorus leader”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xo.ɾiˈɣos/

Noun

χορηγός • (chorigós) m (plural χορηγοί)

1. sponsor, backer, benefactor (especially for an artistic event)

Declension

Declension of χορηγός

	singular	plural
nominative	χορηγός •	χορηγοί •
genitive	χορηγού •	χορηγών •
accusative	χορηγό •	χορηγούς •
vocative	χορηγέ •	χορηγοί •

Further reading

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