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Ancient Greek
Etymology
O-grade verbal noun from λέχομαι (lékhomai, “I lie”). Cognate with Albanian lagje.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ló.kʰos/ → /ˈlo.xos/ → /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
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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.