cohort
/ˈkəʊhɔːt/KOH-hawrt
/ˈkoʊhɔɹt/KOH-hawrt
Meaningan enclosed company
Common meaning: a group sharing a feature
Other meanings: a Roman army unit
- cohortan enclosure; a company of soldiersLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 363 · scan
Journey through time
- Aryan root · reconstructed√GHAR‘seize, grasp, hold, contain’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 113, p. 734 · scan
- Latincohors, -rtis‘an enclosure’
- Englishmeaning shiftsan enclosure → a group sharing a featurecohort‘a group sharing a feature’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Latin cohors ‘an enclosure; a company of soldiers’.
Roots
- cohors, -rtis Latin “an enclosure; a company of soldiers”
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