διλοχία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From δῐ́ς (dĭ́s, “twice, double”) +‎ λόχος (lókhos, “ambush; company”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /di.lo.kʰí.aː/ → /ði.loˈçi.a/ → /ði.loˈçi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /di.lo.kʰí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /di.loˈkʰi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ði.loˈçi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ði.loˈçi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ði.loˈçi.a/

Noun

δῐλοχῐ́ᾱ • (dĭlokhĭ́ā) f (genitive δῐλοχῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. (military) double company
   • 400 BCE – 300 BCE, Aeneas Tacticus, How to Survive under Siege 15.3
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 10.23.4
2. (military) a body of thirty-two men
   • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Asclepiodotus, Tactics 2.8
   • 86 CE – 160 CE, Arrian, Tactics 10.1

Declension

First declension of ἡ δῐλοχῐ́ᾱ; τῆς δῐλοχῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ δῐλοχῐ́ᾱ hē dĭlokhĭ́ā	τὼ δῐλοχῐ́ᾱ tṑ dĭlokhĭ́ā	αἱ δῐλοχῐ́αι hai dĭlokhĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς δῐλοχῐ́ᾱς tês dĭlokhĭ́ās	τοῖν δῐλοχῐ́αιν toîn dĭlokhĭ́ain	τῶν δῐλοχῐῶν tôn dĭlokhĭôn
Dative	τῇ δῐλοχῐ́ᾳ têi dĭlokhĭ́āi	τοῖν δῐλοχῐ́αιν toîn dĭlokhĭ́ain	ταῖς δῐλοχῐ́αις taîs dĭlokhĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν δῐλοχῐ́ᾱν tḕn dĭlokhĭ́ān	τὼ δῐλοχῐ́ᾱ tṑ dĭlokhĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς δῐλοχῐ́ᾱς tā̀s dĭlokhĭ́ās
Vocative	δῐλοχῐ́ᾱ dĭlokhĭ́ā	δῐλοχῐ́ᾱ dĭlokhĭ́ā	δῐλοχῐ́αι dĭlokhĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• δῐλοχῑ́της (dĭlokhī́tēs)

Descendants

• English: dilochia

References

• “δῐλοχία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• διλοχία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• διλοχία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)