The corpus record

χωρ-ίτης

chorites · ὁ

countryman, rustic, boor

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Where it lives

Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

χωρ-ίτης · chōr-itēs — LSJ

countryman, rustic, boor, a country girl

countryman, rustic, boor, S. Fr. 21, X. HG 3.2.31, AP 7.657 (Leon.), Muson. Fr. 11p.60H.:—fem. χωρ-ῖτις, -ιδος, a country girl, Luc. Dear.Iud. [DDeor. 20.]13.

2 one dwelling in a place, country, inhabitant

one dwelling in a place or country, inhabitant, A. Eu. 1035 (lyr.); χ. δράκων Id. Fr. 123, cf. S. Fr. 226.

3 inhabitant of a country town

inhabitant of a country town (χῶρος II.4), οἱ χ. οἱ Ζελειτῶν, opp. οἱ κωμῆται οἱ Συκηνῶν, LW 1534 (Smyrna).

In the wild

χωρῖται · chōritai Aeschylus, Eumenides 1032–1039
χωρίτας · chōritas Xenophon, Hellenica 3.2.31 (DIORISIS sentence 1003)

Where it came from

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