χορευτής

From χορεύω (khoreúō, “to dance a choral dance”) +‎ -τής (-tḗs).

χορευτής • (khoreutḗs) m (genitive χορευτοῦ); first declension

1. a choral dancer
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 12.27
   • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 443
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 373B
   • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, Against Alcibiades 20
   • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 173A
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 252D
   • 331 CE – 363 CE, Julian, Orations 6.197D
   • 314 CE – 393 CE, Libanius, Orations 54.38
   1. an epithet of Pan
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Fragments 99
   2. an epithet of Dionysus
   3. dolphin
      • 100 BCE – 600 CE, Anacreontea 5.24
   4. cicada
      • 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, On the Nature of Animals 1.20

• Greek: χορευτής (choreftís)

• “χορευτής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χορευτής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χορευτής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • chorus idem, page 131.
  • dancer idem, page 194.

Inherited from Ancient Greek χορευτής (khoreutḗs).

χορευτής • (choreftís) m (plural χορευτές, feminine χορεύτρια)

1. dancer

• see: χορός m (chorós, “dance”)