different between choir vs decani

English

Alternative forms

• quire (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English quer, quere, from Old French quer, from Latin chorus, from Ancient Greek ????? (khorós, “company of dancers or singers”). Modern spelling influenced by chorus and Modern French chœur. Doublet of chorus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kwa??(?)/
• Rhymes: -a??(r)
• (US) IPA^(key): /kwa??/
• Rhymes: -a??
• Homophone: quire

Noun

choir (plural choirs)

1. Singing group; group of people who sing together; company of people who are trained to sing together.

2. (architecture) The part of a church where the choir assembles for song.
3. (Christian angelology) One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.

4. Set of strings (one per note) for a harpsichord.

Derived terms

• chorister
• Nikon choir

Related terms

• choral
• chorus
• quire

Translations

Verb

choir (third-person singular simple present choirs or quires, present participle choiring or quiring, simple past and past participle choired or quired)

1. (intransitive) To sing in concert.
   • 1859, The Presbyterian Magazine (volume 9, page 423)

Anagrams

• chiro, chiro-, chori, ichor

French

Etymology

From Middle French cheoir, from Old French cheoir, from Vulgar Latin *cad?re, from Latin cadere, present active infinitive of cad?, from Proto-Italic *kad?, from Proto-Indo-European *?h?d- (“to fall”). Compare Norman caeir, Franco-Provençal chêre, Occitan caire, Catalan caure, Italian cadere, Spanish caer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wa?/
• Rhymes: -wa?

Verb

choir (defective) (past participle chu)

1. (literary) to fall

   Synonym: tomber

Conjugation

This is a defective verb, only conjugated in certain tenses.

Derived terms

• chute
• déchoir
• échoir
• méchoir
• rechoir

Further reading

• “choir” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [x???]

Noun

choir m

1. Lenited form of coir.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dec?n? (“of the dean”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??ke?na?/

Adjective

decani (not comparable)

1. (church architecture) Of the side of the chancel, apse, altar or choir on which the dean's stall is placed (the right hand side to a person facing the altar); decanal.
   • 1934, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors

     You want a few more daffs on the decani side […]

   • 1988, Gordon Paine, Howard Swan, Five Centuries of Choral Music: Essays in Honor of Howard Swan (page 105)

     All the extant voices participate fully in the decani-cantoris split at that point, so one is tempted to assume that the tenors split into decani and cantoris parts as well.

Antonyms

• cantoris

Anagrams

• Caiden, caenid, candie, cnidae

Italian

Noun

decani m

1. plural of decano

Anagrams

• ancide
• canide
• decina
• inceda

Latin

Noun

dec?n?

1. nominative plural of dec?nus
2. genitive singular of dec?nus
3. vocative plural of dec?nus