λόχος

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

λόχος • (lókhos) m (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

• λέκτρον (léktron)
• λέχομαι (lékhomai)
• λέχος (lékhos)

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

• “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.