διλοχία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From δῐ́ς (dís, “twice, double”) +‎ λόχος (lókhos, “ambush; company”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /di.lo.kʰí.aː/ → /ði.loˈçi.a/ → /ði.loˈçi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /di.lo.kʰí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /di.loˈkʰi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ði.loˈçi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ði.loˈçi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ði.loˈçi.a/

Noun

δῐλοχῐ́ᾱ • (dilokhíā) f (genitive δῐλοχῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. (military) double company
   • 400 BCE – 300 BCE, Aeneas Tacticus, How to Survive under Siege 15.3
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 10.23.4
2. (military) a body of thirty-two men
   • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Asclepiodotus, Tactics 2.8
   • 86 CE – 160 CE, Arrian, Tactics 10.1

Declension

First declension of ἡ δῐλοχῐ́ᾱ; τῆς δῐλοχῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ δῐλοχῐ́ᾱ hē dilokhíā	τὼ δῐλοχῐ́ᾱ tṑ dilokhíā	αἱ δῐλοχῐ́αι hai dilokhíai
Genitive	τῆς δῐλοχῐ́ᾱς tês dilokhíās	τοῖν δῐλοχῐ́αιν toîn dilokhíain	τῶν δῐλοχῐῶν tôn dilokhiôn
Dative	τῇ δῐλοχῐ́ᾳ têi dilokhíāi	τοῖν δῐλοχῐ́αιν toîn dilokhíain	ταῖς δῐλοχῐ́αις taîs dilokhíais
Accusative	τὴν δῐλοχῐ́ᾱν tḕn dilokhíān	τὼ δῐλοχῐ́ᾱ tṑ dilokhíā	τᾱ̀ς δῐλοχῐ́ᾱς tā̀s dilokhíās
Vocative	δῐλοχῐ́ᾱ dilokhíā	δῐλοχῐ́ᾱ dilokhíā	δῐλοχῐ́αι dilokhíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• δῐλοχῑ́της (dilokhī́tēs)

Descendants

• English: dilochia

References

• “δῐλοχία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• διλοχία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• διλοχία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)