{"def":{"short":"a coil (spira, \"spire\"), i.e., (figuratively) a mass of men (a Roman military cohort; also (by analogy) a squad of Levitical janitors)","long":["anything rolled into a circle or ball, anything wound, rolled up, folded together","a military cohort",["the tenth part of legion",["about 600 men i.e., legionaries","if auxiliaries either 500 or 1000","a maniple, or the thirtieth part of a legion"],"any band, company, or detachment, of soldiers"]]},"deriv":"of immediate Latin origin, but ultimately a derivative of G0138 in the sense of its cognate G1507","pronun":{"ipa":"ˈspi.rɑ","ipa_mod":"ˈspi.rɑ","sbl":"speira","dic":"SPEE-ra","dic_mod":"SPEE-ra"},"see":["G0138","G1507"]}