different between expense vs choragus

English

Alternative forms

• expence (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English expense, from Anglo-Norman expense and Old French espense, from Late Latin exp?nsa, from Latin expend?. See expend.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?sp?ns/
• Rhymes: -?ns

Noun

expense (countable and uncountable, plural expenses)

1. A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds.
2. The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated.

3. (obsolete) Loss.

Synonyms

• (that which is expended): cost, charge, outlay, disbursement, expenditure, payment

Derived terms

• at the expense of
• expense account

Related terms

• expend
• expensive

Translations

Verb

expense (third-person singular simple present expenses, present participle expensing, simple past and past participle expensed)

1. (transitive) To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.

Derived terms

• expense magazine, (military): a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use. - Henry Lee Scot Military Dictionary

Latin

Participle

exp?nse

1. vocative masculine singular of exp?nsus

References

• expense in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• expense in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• expense in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From Latin choragus, from Ancient Greek ????? (khorós, “chorus”) + ??? (ág?, “I lead”).

Noun

choragus (plural choragi)

1. (historical, Ancient Greece) A chorus leader, especially one who provided at his own expense and under his own supervision one of the choruses for the musical contests at Athens.

Latin

Etymology

Ancient Greek ????? (khorós, “chorus”) + ??? (ág?, “I lead”)

Noun

chor?gus m (genitive chor?g?); second declension

1. The person in charge of a chorus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

References

• choragus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• choragus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• choragus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette