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cohors

Pronunciation: [ˈko.(ɦ)ɔrs]

“cohors” is a Latin word. Its 9 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a court
  2. a farmyard or enclosure
  3. a retinue or escort
  4. a circle or crowd
  5. tenth part of a legion
  6. a military unit of about 500 to 600 men
  7. a band or armed force
  8. a ship's crew
  9. a bodyguard

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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