chorea Latin · revision 32947

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=grc χορός}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kʰɔˈreː.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [koˈrɛː.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''chorēa''' ''f'' (genitive chorēae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Varro has a Greek accusative ''chorēan'';^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil, Tibullus and Propertius scan the ''e'' short.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|χορεία|tr=khoreía|t=round dance]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) The Greek word is from [[m|grc|χορός|tr=khorós|t=dance, chorus]], which Köbler traces to Pokorny's root ⟨*ǵʰer-⟩ “to grasp”.^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Varro,^(Köbler 2010) whose ''Menippean Satires'' use it of the dance of the stars across the sky.^(OLD 2012) Lucretius has the singular.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a dance in a ring, a round dance, most often in the plural, in Tibullus, Propertius, Virgil and Horace.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Transferred, it is the circling movement of the stars and planets.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) By metonymy it is the dancers themselves, as in Propertius' where they will place you in the front of the dance, and it is applied to a magistrate's escort.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it choir, dancing, dance.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of the dance of the stars.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses the singular.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius of the dancers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of round dances.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A round [[m|en|dance]], a dance in a ring.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # The circling movement of the stars.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The dancers; an escort.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[choricus]]

+ * [[chorus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}