syrtos

English

Etymology

From Greek συρτός (syrtós), Koine Greek συρτός (surtós), noun use of Ancient Greek συρτός (surtós, “dragging along”), from σύρειν (súrein, “to drag along, sweep away”).

Noun

syrtos

1. A folk dance of classical and modern Greece.
   • 1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 78:

     He was drawn into a dance, a syrtos of the young people of Lixouri.