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χορικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χορικός χορική χορικόν

Structure: χορικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xo/ros

Sense

  1. of or for a choral dance, choral

Examples

  • οἱ μὲν οὖν Ἕλληνεσ οἱ πλεῖστοι τῷ Διονύσῳ προσέθεσαν καὶ τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι καὶ τῇ Ἑκάτῃ καὶ ταῖσ Μούσαισ καὶ Δήμητρι, νὴ Δία, τὸ ὀργιαστικὸν πᾶν καὶ τὸ βακχικὸν καὶ τὸ χορικὸν καὶ τὸ περὶ τὰσ τελετὰσ μυστικόν, Ιἄκχόν τε καὶ τὸν Διόνυσον καλοῦσι καὶ τὸν ἀρχηγέτην τῶν μυστηρίων, τῆσ Δήμητροσ δαίμονα· (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 3 18:4)

Synonyms

  1. of or for a choral dance

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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