λόχος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
O-grade verbal noun from λέχομαι (lékhomai, “I lie”). Cognate to Albanian lagje.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ló.kʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈlo.kʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈlo.xos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈlo.xos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈlo.xos/
Noun
λόχος • (lókhos) m (genitive λόχου); second declension
- ambush
- The place of an ambush: ambuscade
- A body of men for ambush, armed band
- a company of troops
- childbirth
- a file in the phalanx
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ λόχος; τοῦ λόχου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ λόχος ho lókhos | τὼ λόχω tṑ lókhō | οἱ λόχοι hoi lókhoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ λόχου toû lókhou | τοῖν λόχοιν toîn lókhoin | τῶν λόχων tôn lókhōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ λόχῳ tôi lókhōi | τοῖν λόχοιν toîn lókhoin | τοῖς λόχοις toîs lókhois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν λόχον tòn lókhon | τὼ λόχω tṑ lókhō | τοὺς λόχους toùs lókhous | ||||||||||
Vocative | λόχε lókhe | λόχω lókhō | λόχοι lókhoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Ἀμφίλοχος (Amphílokhos)
- Ἀντῐ́λοχος (Antílokhos)
- Ἀρχίλοχος (Arkhílokhos)
- δῐλοχίᾱ (dilokhíā)
- δῐλοχῑ́της (dilokhī́tēs)
- Ἱππόλοχος (Hippólokhos)
- λοχείος (lokheíos)
Related terms
- λέκτρον (léktron)
- λέχομαι (lékhomai)
- λέχος (lékhos)
Descendants
- → Latin: lochia (< λοχεία (lokheía, n.pl.))
- → English: lochia
References
- “λόχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λόχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “λόχος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λόχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- λόχος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “λόχος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- ambush idem, page 27.
- band idem, page 60.
- battalion idem, page 65.
- brigade idem, page 98.
- choir idem, page 131.
- company idem, page 150.
- corps idem, page 174.
- detachment idem, page 218.
- division idem, page 244.
- regiment idem, page 687.
- snare idem, page 788.
- trap idem, page 890.
- troop idem, page 896.