Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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O-grade verbal noun from λέχομαι (lékhomai, I lie). Cognate with Albanian lagje.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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λόχος (lókhosm (genitive λόχου); second declension

  1. ambush
  2. The place of an ambush: ambuscade
  3. A body of men for ambush, armed band
    1. a company of troops
  4. childbirth
  5. a file in the phalanx

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Latin: lochia (< λοχεία (lokheía, n.pl.))

References

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  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λέχεται”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 852-3

Further reading

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  • 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[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.