λόχος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
O-grade verbal noun from λέχομαι (lékhomai, “I lie”).
Pronunciation
- (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
λόχος • (lókhos) m (genitive λόχου); second declension
- ambush
- The place of an ambush: ambuscade
- A body of men for ambush, armed band
- childbirth
- a file in the phalanx
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
- δῐλοχίᾱ (dilokhíā)
- δῐλοχῑ́της (dilokhī́tēs)
Descendants
- English: lochia
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.
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