χωρέω

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From χῶρος (khôros, place) +‎ -έω (-éō).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Verb

χωρέω • (khōréō)

  1. (intransitive) to withdraw; to give way to [with dative ‘someone’], make room, vacate
  2. (intransitive, after Homer) to go forward, advance
  3. (transitive) to have room for, contain

Usage notes

In Attic the middle form is usually used for the future.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Greek: χωράω (choráo)
  • Mariupol Greek: хуру́ (xurú)

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χώρα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1654-5

Further reading

  • χωρέω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • χωρέω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • χωρέω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • χωρέω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • χωρέω, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011