Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /stratós/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /stratós/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /stɾatós/

Noun

στρᾰτός • ‎(stratós) m ‎(genitive στρατοῦ); second declension

1. army, military force
   • Homer, Iliad 10.347
   • Herodotus, Histories 1.53
   • Aeschylus, Agamemnon 987
   • Aeschylus, Agamemnon 634
   • Euripides, Orestes 341
   • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.85
   • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.71
   • Herodotus, Histories 8.130
   • Aeschylus, The Persians 728
   1. (in Homer) the soldiery, the people, exclusive of the chiefs; the common people
      • Pindar, Pythian Ode 2.160, (compare Olympian Ode 9.143)
      • Aeschylus, The Eumenides 683
      • Aeschylus, The Eumenides 762
      • Sophocles, Electra 749
   2. any band or body of men, as of the Amphictyons
      • Pindar, Pythian Ode 10.12
      • Pindar, Pythian Ode 2.86
      • Pindar, Pythian Ode 6.11

Inflection

Synonyms

• (common people): λαός ‎(laós), δῆμος ‎(dêmos)

References

• στρατός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «στρατός» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «στρατός» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • army idem, page 40.
  • host idem, page 407.
  • troops idem, page 896.

Greek

Noun

στρατός • ‎(stratós) m ‎(plural στρατοί)

1. army (military force), military

Declension

Synonyms

• στρατιά f ‎(stratiá)
• στράτευμα n ‎(strátevma, “massed defence forces”)

Related terms

External links

• στρατός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el