χορός (choros)

Where it lives

Defense Against A Charge Of Taking Bribes 3 · 23.18/10k
Shield of Heracles 5 · 15.46/10k
Bacchae 10 · 13.3/10k
Frogs 12 · 13.18/10k
Against Midias 19 · 12.64/10k
Electra 9 · 11.9/10k
Thesmophoriazusae 6 · 8.53/10k
Ars Poetica 8 · 7.91/10k
Trojan Women 5 · 7.06/10k
Heracles 5 · 6.39/10k
Clouds 6 · 6.24/10k
Acharnians 4 · 5.63/10k

Densest 12 of 77 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

χορός · choros — LSJ

dance, dance, chorus

dance, αἰεὶ δʼ ἡμῖν δαίς τε φίλη κίθαρίς τε χοροί τε Od. 8.248; μετὰ μελπομένῃσιν ἐν χορῷ Ἀρτέμιδος Il. 16.183; τοὶ δʼ ἄνδρες ἐν ἀγλαΐῃς τε χοροῖς τε τέρψιν ἔχον Hes. Sc. 272, cf. 277; εἰς χ. ἐλθέμεν Il. 15.508, cf. Od. 18.194; οὐδέ κε φαίης ἀνδρὶ μαχεσσάμενον τόν γʼ ἐλθεῖν, ἀλλὰ χορόνδε ἔρχεσθʼ ἠὲ χοροῖο νέον λήγοντα καθίζειν Il. 3.393, 394; χορῷ καλὴ Πολυμήλη 16.180: later of the dance as a public religious ceremony, Διόνυσον τιμώσας χοροῖς E. Ba. 220; φυλῆς Ἀκαμαντίδος ἐν χοροῖσιν Simon. 148,

II choir, band of dancers and singers

choir, band of dancers and singers, h.Ven. 118, Pi. N. 5.23, Fr. 199; συμφωνία καὶ χοροί Ev.Luc. 15.25.

2 choir, troop, row, row, a row, class

generally, choir, troop, ἰχθύων S. Fr. 762; μελιττῶν Ael. NA 5.13; χ. καλλίμορφος τέκνων E. HF 925, cf. Pl. Prt. 315b, Tht. 173b, etc.; of things, ἄστρων αἰθέριοι χ. E. El. 467 (lyr.), cf. Mesom. Sol. 17; χ. σκευῶν row of dishes, X. Oec. 8.20; χ. δονάκων row of reeds, i. e. Panʼs pipe, Coluth. 124; χ. ὀδόντων a row of teeth, Gal. UP 11.8 (hence οἱ πρόσθιοι χοροί, for the front teeth, Ar. Ra. 548); τὴν σοφίαν ποῦ χοροῦ τάξομεν; in what class shall we place it? Pl. Euthd. 279c, cf. Chor. 12.28 p.1

III place for dancing, a ring-dance

place for dancing, ἐν δὲ χ. ποίκιλλε . . Ἀμφιγυήεις Il. 18.590; λείηναν δὲ χ. Od. 8.260, cf. 264; ὅθι τʼ Ἠοῦς ἠριγενείης οἰκία καὶ χοροί εἰσι 12.4; Νυμφέων καλοὶ χ. ἠδὲ θόωκοι ib. 318; at Sparta the ἀγορά was called χορός, Paus. 3.11.9; so perh. in Crete, Supp.Epigr. 2.509.6 (Eltynia, prob. v B. C.): v. infr. (Acc. to Hsch. χορός = κύκλος, στέφανος, and therefore prop. denotes a ring-dance.)

In the wild

χορὸς · choros Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1186
χορῶν · chorōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 22–24
χορὸν · choron Aeschylus, Eumenides 307–311
χοροῖς · chorois Aristophanes, Acharnians 885 (DIORISIS sentence 676)
χορῷ · chorōi Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 316)
χοροῖσιν · choroisin Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 484)

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. χορός (scan p. 1695; entry #6597).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. χορός (scan p. 1290; entry #8787).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. χορός (scan pp. 2084-2085; entry #6131).

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