Latin

Noun

cohors f ‎(genitive cohortis); third declension

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

Inflection

Third declension.

Derived terms

• cors

Descendants

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cohors”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • 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