Usage Notes. A cohort was originally one of the ten divisions of a legion in the Roman army, containing from 300 to 600 men. The most common use of cohort today is in the sense âgroupâ or âcompanyâ: A cohort of hangers-on followed the singer down the corridor.sage Notes. A cohort was originally one of the ten divisions of a legion in the Roman army, containing from 300 to 600 men. The most common use of cohort today is in the sense âgroupâ or âcompanyâ: A cohort of hangers-on followed the singer down the corridor.
Palindromes redirects here. For the film, see Palindromes (film). A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward or forward, such as madam or kayak.
This front-back distinction looks very much like the same kind of ablaut variation one finds between, say, Greek [pi][omicron][delta][omicron][zeta](podos, with mid back rounded [o]; English cognate podiatrist) and Latin pedis (with mid front unrounded [e]; cognate pedestrian), both meaning foot, and both coming from the PIE root *ped-.