different between choreography vs chorea

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French chorégraphie, from Ancient Greek ?????? (khoreía, “dance”) + ?????? (graphía, “written form (of a word, etc.), spelling”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??.i???.??.fi/

Noun

choreography (countable and uncountable, plural choreographies)

1. (uncountable) The art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a work, such as a ballet.
   1. (by extension) The art of creating and arranging sequences of movement for performances of any kind, such as in fight choreography.
2. (uncountable) The dance steps, sequences or styles peculiar to a work, group, performance or institution.

3. The representation of these movements by a series of symbols.

4. The notation used to construct this record.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• choreography on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• choreography at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (khoreía).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i??

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• Huntington's chorea
• Sydenham's chorea

Related terms

• choreal
• chorein
• choreography
• choreiform movements
• chorus
• subchoreal

Translations

Anagrams

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

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /k?o?re?.a/, [k????e?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko?re.a/, [k??????]

Noun

chor?a f (genitive chor?ae); 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.

Declension

In prosody, chor?a is sometimes written as chorea without a macron.First-declension noun.

Related terms

• choricus
• chorus

Descendants

• Catalan: corea
• French: chorée
• Italian: corea
• Portuguese: coreia
• Spanish: corea

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• chorea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• chorea in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]

Spanish

Verb

chorea

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of chorear.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of chorear.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of chorear.