The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὁπλίτης“heavily armed foot-soldier”
- English todayhoplite
From Ancient Greek ὁπλίτης (hoplítēs, “heavily armed foot-soldier”), from ὅπλον (hóplon, “arms, armor, weapon”) (from which English hopl-). Compare Latin hoplomachus (“gladiator”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.