cohors
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
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Compound of co- (see cum) and -hors (see hortus)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈko.hors/, [ˈko(ɦ)ɔrs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈko.ors/, [ˈkɔːors]
Noun
cohors f (genitive cohortis); third declension
- a court
- a farmyard or enclosure
- a retinue
- a circle or crowd
- a cohort; tenth part of a legion
- a band or armed force
- a ship's crew
- a bodyguard
- a military unit of 500 men
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cohors | cohortēs |
Genitive | cohortis | cohortium |
Dative | cohortī | cohortibus |
Accusative | cohortem | cohortēs cohortīs |
Ablative | cohorte | cohortibus |
Vocative | cohors | cohortēs |
Descendants
- Catalan: cort; → cohort
- → English: cohort
- Franco-Provençal: côrt
- → cohorte
- Friulian: cort; → coorte
- Galician: corte
- → Byzantine Greek: κοόρτης (koórtēs), κοόρτη (koórtē), κόρτη (kórtē), κόρτης (kórtēs), κώρτη (kṓrtē), κώρτης (kṓrtēs), χόρτη (khórtē), χώρτη (khṓrtē)
- Italian: corte; → coorte
- Occitan: cort; → coòrta
- Old French: cort, curt
- Portuguese: corte; → coorte
- Romanian: curte; → cohortă
- → Russian: кого́рта (kogórta)
- Spanish: corte; → cohorte
References
- “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
- 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