English

Noun

chorea ‎(plural choreas or choreae or choreæ)

1. An Ancient Greek circular dance accompanied by a chorus.
2. (medicine) Any of the various diseases of the nervous system characterized by involuntary muscular movements of the face and extremities; St. Vitus's dance.

Derived terms

• Huntington's chorea
• Sydenham's chorea

Related terms

• choreography
• choreiform movements
• chorus

Translations

Anagrams

• Horace, ochrea, orache

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χορεία ‎(khoreía, “dance; circling motion”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʰoˈreː.a/

Noun

chorēa f ‎(genitive chorēae); first declension

1. (usually in the plural) A dance in a ring, round dance.
2. (metonymically) A round dance of the circular motions of the stars.

Inflection

In prosody, chorēa is sometimes written as chorea without a macron. First declension.

Related terms

• choricus
• chorus

Descendants

• Catalan: corea
• French: chorée
• Portuguese: coréia
• Spanish: corea

References

• chorea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• chorea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• CHOREA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “chorea”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• chorea in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia

Spanish

Verb

chorea

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of chorear.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of chorear.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of chorear.