Ancient Greek

Noun

δῐλοχῐ́ᾱ • ‎(dilokhíā) f ‎(genitive δῐλοχῐ́ᾱs); 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

Derived terms

• δῐλοχῑ́της ‎(dilokhī́tēs)

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 (© 2006–2016)