Ancient Greek

Noun

χορευτής • ‎(khoreutḗs) m ‎(genitive χορευτοῦ); first declension

1. a choral dancer
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 12.27
   • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 443
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 373.B
   • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, Against Alcibiades 20
   • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 173.A
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 252.D
   • 331 CE – 363 CE, Julian, Orations 6.197.D
   • 314 CE – 393 CE, Libanius, Orations 54.38
   1. an epithet of Pan
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Fragments 99
   2. an epithet of Dionysus
   3. dolphin
      • 100 BCE – 600 CE, Anacreontea 5.24
   4. cicada
      • 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, On the Nature of Animals 1.20

Inflection

References

• χορευτής in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χορευτής in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «χορευτής» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • chorus idem, page 131.
  • dancer idem, page 194.

Greek

Noun

χορευτής • ‎(choreftís) m ‎(plural χορευτές, feminine χορεύτρια)

1. dancer

Declension

Related terms

• see: χορός m ‎(chorós, “dance”)