cohors

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *kom +‎ *horti-, the latter a ti-derivative of what is likely the same root underlying *hortos (enclosure). By surface analysis, co- +‎ -hors.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cohors f (genitive cohortis); third declension

  1. a court
  2. a farmyard or enclosure
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.703–704:
      is capit extrēmī volpem convalle salictī;
      abstulerat multās illa cohortīs avēs.
      He catches a vixen in a ravine at the end of a willow grove;
      she had carried off many farmyard birds.
  3. a retinue or escort
  4. a circle or crowd
  5. a cohort; tenth part of a legion
  6. a band or armed force
  7. a ship's crew
  8. a bodyguard
  9. a military unit of 500 men

Declension

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Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

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References

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  • cohors”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cohors”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cohors in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • cohors in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the cohort on guard-duty: cohors, quae in statione est
  • cohors”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cohors”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “cohors, -tis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 123