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χοροιτύπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χοροιτύπος χοροιτύπον

Structure: χοροιτυπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: cf. xoroi/tupos

Sense

  1. beating the ground in the dance, dancing

Examples

  • χαῖρε, φυὴν ἐρόεσσα, χοροιτύπε, δαιτὸσ ἑταίρη, ἀσπασίη προφανεῖσα· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 4:3)
  • τραφῆναι μὲν δὴ τὸν Σιληνὸν ἐν τῇ Μαλέᾳ δηλοῖ καὶ τάδε ἐξ ᾄσματοσ Πινδάρουὁ ζαμενὴσ δὲ ὁ χοροιτύποσ, ὃν Μαλέασ ὄροσἔθρεψε, Ναί̈δοσ ἀκοίτασ, Σιληνόσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 25 4:2)

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

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