The corpus record

λογχο-φόρος

logchophoros

spear-bearing

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Where it lives

Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
Peace 1 · 1.26/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

λογχο-φόρος · loncho-phoros — LSJ

spear-bearing, spearman, pikeman

spear-bearing, E. Hec. 1089: as Subst. λ., ὁ, spearman, pikeman, Ar. Pax 1294, X. Cyr. 2.1.5, Plb. 3.84.14, POxy. 1241 ii 16 (ii A. D.); χιλίαρχοι λ. Sammelb. 6154.6 (i B. C.), Bull.Soc.Alex. 7.64.

In the wild

λογχοφόροισιν · lonchophoroisin Aristophanes, Peace (DIORISIS sentence 928)
λογχοφόρον · lonchophoron Euripides, Hecuba (DIORISIS sentence 609)
λογχοφόρους · lonchophorous Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.1.5 (DIORISIS sentence 697)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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