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loch⋅us

[lok-uhs]
–noun, plural loch⋅i [lok-ahy] .
(in ancient Greece) a subdivision of an army.

Origin:
1825–35; < Gk lóchos lit., ambush, place for lying in wait, hence, men forming an ambush; cf. lochia
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