chorea

From Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía).

• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹi.ə/, [kʰɵˈɹi.ə]
• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹiːə/, [kʰɵˈɹiːə]
• Homophone: Korea
• 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

• chorea-acanthocytosis
• chorea gravidarum
• choreal
• choreiform movements
• chorein
• hemichorea
• Huntington's chorea
• Sydenham's chorea

• choreo-
  • choreodrama
  • choreography
  • choreomania
• chorus
• subchoreal

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

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʰoˈreː.a/, [kʰɔˈreːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈre.a/, [koˈrɛːä]

chorēa f (genitive chorēae); first declension

1. (usually in the plural) A dance in a ring, round dance.
2. (metonymically) 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’s 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

chorea

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