# χορός
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

Likely from a Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoros, from a root *ǵʰer-, though the semantic identity of this root has been disputed:
* From *ǵʰer- (“to seize, catch, enclose”), with some original meaning of "encircling/ring (dance)", whence χόρτος (khórtos, “enclosure”) and Latin cohors, with comparable meanings (multitude, troop).
* From *ǵʰer- (“to yearn for”), whence also χαίρω (khaírō, “to rejoice”).
* From a *ǵʰer- of uncertain interpretation, though related to Lithuanian žãras (“row, twig”); this could be identical to the "seize" meaning above.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kʰo.rós/ → /xoˈros/ → /xoˈros/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /kʰo.rós/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /kʰoˈros/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /xoˈros/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /xoˈros/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /xoˈros/

### Noun

χορός • (khorós) m (genitive χοροῦ); second declension
* dance ring; round dance
* dance accompanied by song; choral dance
* chorus, choir, band of singers and dancers
* band, troop, group
* row
* place for dancing
    Synonym: χορεῖον (khoreîon)
* (theater) Chorus

#### Derived terms

* ἄχορος (ákhoros)
* χορεύω (khoreúō)

#### Descendants

* Greek: χορός m (chorós)
* → Latin: chorus m (see there for further descendants)
* → Georgian: ხორუმი (xorumi)
* → Russian: хор m (xor)
* → Hebrew: הוֹרָה f
* → Esperanto: ĥoro
* → Serbo-Croatian: о́ро n, óro
* → Bulgarian: хоро (horo)
** → Romanian: horă f

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χορός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1644

### Further reading

* “χορός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “χορός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “χορός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* χορός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
* χορός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “χορός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G5525 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. band idem, page 60.choir idem, page 131.choral idem, page 131.chorus idem, page 131.company idem, page 150.dance idem, page 194.
* χορός, 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 χορός (khorós).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xoˈɾos/

### Noun

χορός • (chorós) m (plural χοροί)
* dance
* chorus in a performance of Ancient Greek drama

#### Related terms

* χορευτής m (choreftís, “dancer”)
* χορεύτρια f (choréftria, “dancer”)
* χορεύω (chorévo, “to dance”)
* σέρνω το χορό (sérno to choró, “lead a dance line, be a ringleader”)

### Further reading

* χορός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{el}$
* χορός, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language