λόχος
Ancient Greek
    
    Etymology
    
O-grade verbal noun from λέχομαι (lékhomai, “I lie”). Cognate to Albanian lagje.
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
- a company of troops
 
 - 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  | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
    
- Ἀμφίλοχος (Amphílokhos)
 - Ἀντῐ́λοχος (Antílokhos)
 - Ἀρχίλοχος (Arkhílokhos)
 - δῐλοχίᾱ (dilokhíā)
 - δῐλοχῑ́της (dilokhī́tēs)
 - Ἱππόλοχος (Hippólokhos)
 - λοχείος (lokheíos)
 
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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