χόριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer-, the same root of χορδή (khordḗ, “guts, intestine”) and Latin hernia (“protruded viscus”). However, Beekes finds this proposal unconvincing.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰó.ri.on/ → /ˈxo.ri.on/ → /ˈxo.ri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰó.ri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰo.ri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈxo.ri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈxo.ri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈxo.ri.on/

Noun

χόρῐον • (khórĭon) n (genitive χορίου); second declension

1. (anatomy) afterbirth, placenta
2. any intestinal membrane
   1. (in the plural) dish filled with milk and honey, kind of pudding similar to haggis
3. membrane round the inside of the egg

Declension

Second declension of τὸ χόρῐον; τοῦ χορῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ χόρῐον tò khórĭon	τὼ χορῐ́ω tṑ khorĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ χόρῐᾰ tằ khórĭă
Genitive	τοῦ χορῐ́ου toû khorĭ́ou	τοῖν χορῐ́οιν toîn khorĭ́oin	τῶν χορῐ́ων tôn khorĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ χορῐ́ῳ tôi khorĭ́ōi	τοῖν χορῐ́οιν toîn khorĭ́oin	τοῖς χορῐ́οις toîs khorĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ χόρῐον tò khórĭon	τὼ χορῐ́ω tṑ khorĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ χόρῐᾰ tằ khórĭă
Vocative	χόρῐον khórĭon	χορῐ́ω khorĭ́ō	χόρῐᾰ khórĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: χόριο (chório)
• → Late Latin: chorion (learned)
  • → English: chorion (learned)

Further reading

• “χόριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χόριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN