Ancient Greek edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

 

Verb edit

χωρέω (khōréō)

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

Usage notes edit

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

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

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

Further reading edit

  • 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 - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.