enomoty means A band of sworn soldiers; a division of the Spartan army ranging from twenty-five to thirty-six men, bound together by oath. It carries an Arena rating of 1324, earned across 5 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, enomoty ranks #88 of 17,149 for Most Exacting Words, #882 of 17,104 for Most Storied Words, #1,922 of 17,132 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound, #2,076 of 17,151 for The Improbable.
Why “enomoty” is a great word
A small, fundamental military unit of sworn comrades, specifically the Spartan army’s basic subdivision of twenty-five to thirty-six men bound by a collective oath. From the Ancient Greek ἐνωμοτία (enōmotía), from ἐν (en, "in") and ὅρκος (hórkos, "oath"). Unlike the larger, more administrative *lochos* or the monolithic, impersonal *phalanx* formation, the enomotia was defined by an intimate, horizontal covenant. It was the scrape of shields interlocking in a single row, the shared breath in the crush of battle, the low murmur of a vow sworn to the man beside you—a brotherhood forged not by conscription but by oath, the irreducible molecule of Spartan will.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἐνωμοτία (enōmotía).
noun
- A band of sworn soldiers; a division of the Spartan army ranging from twenty-five to thirty-six men, bound together by oath.e.g.“The first man in each enomoty (beginning at the right of the front line) was the enomotarch, and the last man in each enomoty was the uragus (οὐραγός).” — 1883, Xenophon's Anabasis, page 334:
Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Words closest in meaning
By meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.