cohors

== Latin == === Alternative forms === cōrs === 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. === 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). ==== Derived terms ==== cōrtīna ==== Descendants ==== === References === === 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, 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. “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