χορός

Uncertain. Has traditionally been derived from a Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“catch”), cognate to χόρτος (khórtos, “enclosure”) and Sanskrit हरति (harati). However, the word is phonetically identical to Lithuanian žaras, and so could perhaps be from a Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoros.

χορός • (khorós) m (genitive χοροῦ); second declension

1. dance ring, round dance
2. dance accompanied by song, choral dance
3. chorus, choir, band of singers and dancers
4. band, troop, group
5. row
6. place for dancing

• Greek: χορός m (chorós)
• → Latin: chorus
• → Russian: хор m (xor)

• χορός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χορός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χορός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• χορός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• χορός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• χορός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5525 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • band idem, page 60.
  • choir idem, page 131.
  • choral idem, page 131.
  • chorus idem, page 131.
  • company idem, page 150.
  • dance idem, page 194.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

From Ancient Greek χορός (khorós).

χορός • (chorós) m (plural χοροί)

1. dance
2. chorus in a performance of Ancient Greek drama

• χορευτής m (choreftís, “dancer”)
• χορεύτρια m (choréftria, “dancer”)
• χορεύω (chorévo, “to dance”)
• σέρνω το χορό (sérno to choró, “lead a dance line, be a ringleader”)