Feminine

cohors

Meaning

  1. (declension-3, feminine) a court
  2. (declension-3, feminine) a farmyard or enclosure
  3. (declension-3, feminine) a retinue or escort
  4. (declension-3, feminine) a circle or crowd
  5. (declension-3, feminine) a cohort; tenth part of a legion
  6. (declension-3, feminine) a band or armed force
  7. (declension-3, feminine) a ship's crew
  8. (declension-3, feminine) a bodyguard
  9. (declension-3, feminine) a military unit of 500 men

Synonyms

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
[ˈko.(ɦ)ɔrs]
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.

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