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- French · borrowed fromchorégraphie
- English todaychoregraphy
Borrowed from French chorégraphie. It replaced earlier chorography in the dance sense (from χορός (khorós, “dance ring, round dance”) + -γραφία (-graphía); compare Greek χορογραφία (chorografía)), which had been used in 1710 as a translation of the same French term.
Words from the same roots
Frenchchorégraphie all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.