The corpus record — Latin

chorea

chorea · f

a dance in a ring

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Where it lives

Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 7.65/10k
Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Psychomachia 2 · 3.33/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 2 · 2.64/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
Carmina 3 · 2.26/10k
Elegiae 5 · 1.98/10k
Elegiae 2 · 1.62/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

chŏrēa — Lewis & Short

chŏrēa (chŏrĕa, ae, f., = xorei/a (most freq. in

Tib. 1, 3, 59; Prop. 2 (3), 19, 15; Verg. A. 6, 644), plur.),

I a dance in a ring, a dance.

(a) Sing., * Lucr. 2, 636; Verg. Cul. 19.—

(b) Plur., Tib. 1, 7, 49; Prop. 1, 3, 5; 3 (4), 10, 23; Verg. A. 9, 615; 10, 224; Hor. C. 1, 9, 16; 2, 19, 25; 4, 6, 15; Ov. M. 8, 581; 8, 746; 14, 520 et saep.—

II Meton., of the circular motions of the stars: choreae astricae, Varr. ap. Non. p. 451, 11; Manil. 1, 668.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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