στρατός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• στροτός (strotós) — Aeolic

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *strətós, from Proto-Indo-European *str̥tós, from *ster- (“to spread, stretch out, extend”).

Cognates include Latin strātus, Old Irish srath (“grass, grassy place”), and Sanskrit स्तृत (stṛtá-, “bestrewn”). Compare στορέννυμι (storénnumi).

Compare στρωτός (strōtós).

Pronunciation

Noun

στρᾰτός • (stratós) m (genitive στρᾰτοῦ); second declension (Epic, Attic, Ionic, Doric)

1. army, military force
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.347
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.53
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 987
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 634
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 341
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.85
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.71
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.130
   • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 728
   1. (in Homer) the soldiery, the people, exclusive of the chiefs; the common people
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 2.160, (compare Olympian Ode 9.143)
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 683
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 762
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 749
   2. any band or body of men, as of the Amphictyons
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 10.12
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 2.86
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 6.11

Inflection

Synonyms

• (common people): λαός (laós), δῆμος (dêmos)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “στρατός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• στρατός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• στρατός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • army idem, page 40.
  • host idem, page 407.
  • troops idem, page 896.

Greek

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek στρατός (stratós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɾaˈtos/ - compare to the name Στράτος (Strátos)
• Hyphenation: στρα‧τός

Noun

στρατός • (stratós) m (plural στρατοί)

1. army, military force

   Synonyms: στρατιά (stratiá), στράτευμα (strátevma) (massed armies)

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• στρατός - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.
• στρατός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el