ὀρχέομαι - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Beekes suggests a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ergʰ- (“to mount”); this is clarified by Frisk an an iterative-intensive formation from ἔρχομαι (érkhomai, “to come, go”), for which see there for more. Watkins posits a connection with ὄρχις (órkhis, “testicle”), which appears semantically tenuous.^[1]

ὀρχέομαι • (orkhéomai)

1. to dance
   • Euph. 87
2. to represent by dancing or pantomime
3. (figuratively) to leap, bound
4. (active voice) to cause to dance

• “ὀρχέομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὀρχέομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὀρχέομαι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὀρχέομαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὀρχέομαι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G3738 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• ὀρχέομαι, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

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