χωρέω

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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From χῶρος (khôros, place) +‎ -έω (-éō).[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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χωρέω (khōréō)

  1. (intransitive) to withdraw; to give way to [with dative ‘someone’], make room, vacate
  2. (intransitive, after Homer) to go forward, advance
  3. (transitive) to have room for, contain

Usage notes

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In Attic the middle form is usually used for the future.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Greek: χωράω (choráo)
  • Mariupol Greek: хуру́ (xurú)

References

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  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χώρα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1654-5

Further reading

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  • χωρέω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • χωρέω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • χωρέω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • χωρέω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • χωρέω”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011