coree

Forms

coree f (uncountable)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French chorée, the French medical name of the disease, which French also calls “St Vitus' dance”.^[2][3][4][1] The French word comes from Latin chorea, from Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía, “dance”), from χορός (khorós, “dance, band of dancers, chorus”).^[2][5] The DA compares cor and horă, which go back to the same Greek word.^[6]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is Vasile Bianu's medical dictionary for the household, Doctorul de casă (Buzău, 1910), in the medical sense.^[2][3]

Semantic evolution

The word has stayed a medical term with one sense.^[6][4] The DA described the disease as common in young children, the DLRM “especially in children”, and DEX 2009 “especially in young people”;^[6][7][4][5] Marcu calls it a neurological syndrome.^[6][7][4][5] The adjective and noun coreic “of chorea; one who suffers from chorea”, from French choréique, is recorded from 1969.^[2]

Timeline

• 1910 – in Bianu's Doctorul de casă, the first record.^[2][3]
• 1931 – CADE: a nervous disease with involuntary movements of the whole body.^[8]
• 1969 – the derivative coreic.^[2]

Meanings

Noun

1. (pathology) chorea: a disease of the nervous system, most frequent in young people, with continuous involuntary and irregular movements of parts of the body.^[4][3]

Related words

• cor
• horă

Usage notes

The word is pronounced in three syllables, co-re-e.^[9][10] It has no plural.^[2][6]

References

1. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2011–), Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române (DELR), vol. I: A–B (2011), vol. II: C (2015–2018), București: Editura Academiei Române; continued online at delr.lingv.ro, p. s.v. coree
3. ^ a b c d Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 509
4. ^ a b c d e DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 236
5. ^ a b c Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual
6. ^ a b c d e Academia Română (1913–1949), Dicționarul limbii române (DA), ed. Sextil Pușcariu, tom I (A–B, C, D–De) and tom II (F–I, J–Lojniță), București: Socec / Universul / Monitorul Oficial și Imprimeriile Statului; page scans at cflr-scans.solirom.ro, p. s.v. coree
7. ^ a b Academia Republicii Populare Romîne (1958), Dicționarul limbii romîne moderne, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. s.v. coree
8. ^ Candrea, I.-A.; Adamescu, Gh. (1926–1931), Dicționarul enciclopedic ilustrat „Cartea Românească”, București: Cartea Românească, p. s.v. coree
9. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România
10. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional