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• choregus, (rare) choregos

語源

Borrowed from Latin chorāgus, from Doric Greek χορᾱγός (khorāgós), from χορός (khorós, “chorus”) +‎ -ᾱγός (-āgós, Doric form of -ηγός (-ēgós, “-leader”)), literally “chorus-leader”. Compare Attic Greek χορηγός (khorēgós).

名詞

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.
   • 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “III. The Persians”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 75:

     […] no less a person than Themistocles had, as choragus, defrayed the special cost of the performance.

派生語

参照

• “choragus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

名詞

chorāgus m (genitive chorāgī); second declension

1. chorus leader (the person in charge of a chorus)

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

関連する語

• chorāgium

派生した語

• → English: choragus
• Italian: corago
• Middle French: chorague

参照

• “choragus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "choragus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “choragus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.