lochosn.

Brit.

/ˈlɒkɒs/, U.S.

/ˈlɑkəs/

Inflections: Plural lochoi Brit.

/ˈlɒkɔɪ/, U.S.

/ˈlɑkɔɪ/, lochi.

Forms: 1600s 1800s– lochi (plural), 1600s 1800s– lochoi (plural), 1600s– lochos, 1800s– lochus.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek λόχος.

Etymology: < ancient Greek λόχος ambush, body of troops, company, childbirth (literally ‘place for lying down’ or ‘fact of lying down’) < an ablaut variant (o -grade) of the base of λέχεσθαι to lie down < the same Indo-European base as lie v.¹ Compare post-classical Latin lochus (1593 or earlier).

Ancient Greek History.

A division of an ancient Greek army.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > ancient Greek unit

hipparchy1616

lochos1616

mora1808

taxis1850

phyle1906

1616 J. Bingham in tr. Ælian Tactiks iv. 40 The Lochos of the Lacedaemonians of fiue hundred and twelue.

1683 J. Turner Pallas Armata v. 13 Lochos with the Grecians was our File, two of these made a Dilochy, which consisted of thirty two men.

1761 Ess. Art War 116 To one Lochos, or File of sixteen Men, there were five File Leaders, who directed the Manœuvres the Phalanx might perform.

1832 T. Arnold Thucydides II. v. lxviii. 339 The lochus then consisted ordinarily of 100 men, under the command of the lochagus... On extraordinary occasions..the strength of the lochus was doubled..while the number of the lochi themselves was not increased.

1849 W. Smith Dict. Greek & Rom. Antiq. (new ed.) 483/2 The lochus here is a body of 512 men, and is commanded by a polemarch.

1967 Historia 16 296 The lochagus volunteered not individually but on behalf of his whole lochus.

1991 Phoenix 45 74 Jones..joins those who reconcile Herodotus and Thucydides by supposing that there had been a lochos of the army from Pitana but Pitanates lochos had not been its name.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	lochos
释义	lochosn. Brit. /ˈlɒkɒs/, U.S. /ˈlɑkəs/ Inflections: Plural lochoi Brit. /ˈlɒkɔɪ/, U.S. /ˈlɑkɔɪ/, lochi. Forms: 1600s 1800s– lochi (plural), 1600s 1800s– lochoi (plural), 1600s– lochos, 1800s– lochus. Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek λόχος. Etymology: < ancient Greek λόχος ambush, body of troops, company, childbirth (literally ‘place for lying down’ or ‘fact of lying down’) < an ablaut variant (o -grade) of the base of λέχεσθαι to lie down < the same Indo-European base as lie v.¹ Compare post-classical Latin lochus (1593 or earlier). Ancient Greek History. A division of an ancient Greek army. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > ancient Greek unit hipparchy1616 lochos1616 mora1808 taxis1850 phyle1906 1616 J. Bingham in tr. Ælian Tactiks iv. 40 The Lochos of the Lacedaemonians of fiue hundred and twelue. 1683 J. Turner Pallas Armata v. 13 Lochos with the Grecians was our File, two of these made a Dilochy, which consisted of thirty two men. 1761 Ess. Art War 116 To one Lochos, or File of sixteen Men, there were five File Leaders, who directed the Manœuvres the Phalanx might perform. 1832 T. Arnold Thucydides II. v. lxviii. 339 The lochus then consisted ordinarily of 100 men, under the command of the lochagus... On extraordinary occasions..the strength of the lochus was doubled..while the number of the lochi themselves was not increased. 1849 W. Smith Dict. Greek & Rom. Antiq. (new ed.) 483/2 The lochus here is a body of 512 men, and is commanded by a polemarch. 1967 Historia 16 296 The lochagus volunteered not individually but on behalf of his whole lochus. 1991 Phoenix 45 74 Jones..joins those who reconcile Herodotus and Thucydides by supposing that there had been a lochos of the army from Pitana but Pitanates lochos had not been its name. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1616
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