cordax

From Ancient Greek κόρδαξ (kórdax).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːdaks/

cordax (plural cordaxes)

1. (historical) A lascivious dance featuring in Ancient Greek comedy.

From Ancient Greek κόρδαξ (kórdax, “cordax dance”), from Pre-Greek.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔr.daks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔr.d̪aks]

cordax m (genitive cordacis); third declension

1. a lively and salacious dance of Greek comedy
2. a trochaic rhythm reminiscent of the dance

Third-declension noun.

• “cordax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cordax”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers