choreus

Latin choreus, from Ancient Greek χορεῖος (khoreîos), related to χορός (khorós, “choir, chorus”).

choreus (plural choreuses)

1. (prosody) A trochee.
2. (prosody) A tribrach.

• choree

• chouser, rouches

• chorīus

From Ancient Greek χορεῖος (khoreîos, “of a chorus”), from χορός (khorós).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʰoˈreː.us/, [kʰɔˈreːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈre.us/, [koˈrɛːus]

chorēus m (genitive chorēī); second declension

1. a choreus, trochee
2. (later) a tribrach

Second-declension noun.

• dichorēus

• “choreus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “choreus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers