# στρατός
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* στροτός (strotós) — Aeolic

### Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *strətós, from Proto-Indo-European *str̥tós, from *ster- (“to spread, stretch out, extend”). The original meaning was probably "camping army" (stretched over an area).
Cognates include Latin strātus, Old Irish srath (“grass, grassy place”), and Sanskrit स्तृत (stṛtá-, “bestrewn”). Compare στορέννυμι (storénnumi).
Compare στρωτός (strōtós).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stra.tós/ → /straˈtos/ → /straˈtos/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /stra.tós/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /straˈtos/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /straˈtos/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /straˈtos/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /straˈtos/

### Noun

στρᾰτός • (strătós) m (genitive στρᾰτοῦ); second declension (Epic, Attic, Ionic, Doric)
* army, military force
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.347
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.53
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 987
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 634
** 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 341
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.85
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.71
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.130
** 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 728
** (in Homer) the soldiery, the people, exclusive of the chiefs; the common people
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 2.160, (compare Olympian Ode 9.143)
*** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 683
*** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 762
*** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 749
** any band or body of men, as of the Amphictyons
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 10.12
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 2.86
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 6.11

#### Synonyms

* (common people): λαός (laós), δῆμος (dêmos)

#### Derived terms

* Ᾰ̓ρχέστρᾰτος (Ărkhéstrătos)
* Δημόστρατος (Dēmóstratos)
* Ἐρασίστρᾰτος (Erasístrătos)
* Ἡρόστρατος (Hēróstratos)
* Ἱππόστρᾰτος (Hippóstrătos)
* Καλλίστρατος (Kallístratos)
* Κλεόστρᾰτος (Kleóstrătos)
* Λῡσῐ́στρᾰτος (Lūsĭ́strătos)
* Νῑκόστρᾰτος (Nīkóstrătos)
* Πεισῐ́στρᾰτος (Peisĭ́strătos)
* Στρᾰτονῑ́κη (Strătonī́kē)
* Στρᾰ́τος (Strắtos)
* στρᾰτοφῠ́λᾰξ (strătophŭ́lăx)
* Σωστρᾰ́τη (Sōstrắtē)
* Σώστρατος (Sṓstratos)
* Φιλόστρᾰτος (Philóstrătos)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “στρατός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1411-2

### Further reading

* “στρατός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* στρατός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* στρατός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. army idem, page 40.host idem, page 407.troops idem, page 896.

## Greek
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek στρατός (stratós).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stɾaˈtos/ - compare to the name Στράτος (Strátos)
* Hyphenation: στρα‧τός

### Noun

στρατός • (stratós) m (plural στρατοί)
* army, military force
    Synonyms: στρατιά (stratiá), στράτευμα (strátevma) (massed armies)

#### Related terms

* αντιστρατιωτικώς (antistratiotikós, “antimilitaristic, unmilitary”, adjective)
* αρχιστρατηγός m (archistratigós, “commander-in-chief”)
* αστράτευτος (astráteftos, “unconscripted, exempted service”, adjective)
* αστρατολόγητος (astratológitos, “unrecruited”, adjective)
* επιστρατεύω (epistratévo, “to conscript”)
* Κόκκινος Στρατός m (Kókkinos Stratós, “Red Army”)
* στρατάρχης m (stratárchis, “field marshal”)
* στρατηγείο n (stratigeío, “headquarters”)
* στρατήγημα n (stratígima, “stratagem”)
* στρατηγία f (stratigía, “generalship”)
* στρατηγική f (stratigikí, “strategy”)
* στρατηγικός (stratigikós, “strategic”)
* στρατηγός m (stratigós, “general”)
* στρατιωτάκι n (stratiotáki, “toy soldier”)
* στρατιώτης m (stratiótis, “soldier”)
* στρατιωτικά (stratiotiká, “militarily”)
* στρατιωτικός (stratiotikós, “militaristic, military”)
* στρατιωτικός (stratiotikós, “military”)
* στρατιωτίνα f (stratiotína, “soldier”)
* στρατοκράτης m (stratokrátis, “militarist”)
* στρατοκρατία f (stratokratía, “militarism”)
* στρατολογία f (stratología, “conscription”)
* στρατολογώ (stratologó, “to conscript”)

### Further reading

* στρατός, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
* στρατός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{el}$