chorea

From Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía).

• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰorɪjɑ/, /kʰɵˈrɪjɑ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹi.ə/, [kʰɵˈɹi.ə]
• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹiːə/, [kʰɵˈɹiːə]

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• Homophone: Korea (most accents)
• Rhymes: -iːə

chorea (countable and uncountable, plural choreas or choreae or choreæ)

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

   Hypernym: dyskinesia

• HORECA, HoReCa, Horace, Roache, archeo-, ochrea, orache

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʰɔˈreː.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koˈrɛː.a]

chorēa f (genitive chorēae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• choricus
• chorus

• Catalan: corea
• French: chorée
• Italian: corea
• Portuguese: coreia
• Spanish: corea

• “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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “chorea”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “chorea”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]

chorea

1. inflection of chorear:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative