χορηγός

• χορᾱγός (khorāgós)

From χορός (khorós, “chorus”) +‎ ἄγω (ágō, “to lead”).

χορηγός • (khorēgós) m (genitive χορηγοῦ); second declension

1. a chorus leader, who could enter the story as a character able to interact with the characters of a play
2. generally, the leader of a train or band
3. in Athens, one who defrays the cost of a performance
4. generally, one who supplies financial backing for any endeavour

• → French: chorège
• → English: choregus
• Greek: χορηγός m (chorigós, “benefactor”)

• “χορηγός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χορηγός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χορηγός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • chorus idem, page 131.
  • paymaster idem, page 600.
• “χορηγός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011

From Ancient Greek χορηγός (khorēgós, “chorus leader”).

• IPA^(key): /xo.ɾiˈɣos/

χορηγός • (chorigós) m (plural χορηγοί)

1. sponsor, backer, benefactor (especially for an artistic event)

• χορηγός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el
• χορηγός - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.