cohors
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
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
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈko.(ɦ)ɔrs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkɔː.ors]
Noun
cohors f (genitive cohortis); third declension
- a court
- a farmyard or enclosure
- a retinue or escort
- 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).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | cohors | cohortēs |
genitive | cohortis | cohortium |
dative | cohortī | cohortibus |
accusative | cohortem | cohortēs cohortīs |
ablative | cohorte | cohortibus |
vocative | cohors | cohortēs |
Derived terms
Descendants
- ⇒ Late Latin: cōrs (see there for further descendants)
Borrowings:
- → Byzantine Greek: κοόρτης (koórtēs), κοόρτη (koórtē), κόρτη (kórtē), κόρτης (kórtēs), κώρτη (kṓrtē), κώρτης (kṓrtēs), χόρτη (khórtē), χώρτη (khṓrtē)
- → Catalan: cohort
- → English: cohort
- → French: cohorte
- → Friulian: coorte
- → Galician: cohorte
- → Italian: coorte
- → Occitan: coòrta
- → Portuguese: coorte
- → Romanian: cohortă
- → Russian: кого́рта (kogórta)
- → Spanish: cohorte
- → Ukrainian: кого́рта (kohórta)
References
- ^ 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
Further reading
- “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