λόχος
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editO-grade verbal noun from λέχομαι (lékhomai, “I lie”). Cognate with Albanian lagje.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (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
editλόχος • (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
editCase / # | 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
edit- Ἀμφίλοχος (Amphílokhos)
- Ἀντῐ́λοχος (Antílokhos)
- Ἀρχίλοχος (Arkhílokhos)
- δῐλοχίᾱ (dilokhíā)
- δῐλοχῑ́της (dilokhī́tēs)
- Ἱππόλοχος (Hippólokhos)
- λοχάω (lokháō)
- λοχείος (lokheíos)
Related terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- ^ 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
edit- “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.
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *legʰ-
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
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- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension