horti- +

1. A band of soldiers.
2. Any group of associates.
3. A reference to someone's companion or follower.
4. A group of people sharing a common factor; such as, the same age or the same income bracket, especially in a statistical survey: "A lack of focus was a common failure for students in that age cohort."
5. A disapproving reference to a supporter, an accomplice, or an associate of a leader; especially, someone to whom special treatment and preference is given: "The police were observing the gang's leader and his cohorts."
6. Etymology: from Latin cohortem, accusative form of cohors, "enclosure"; with the extended meaning applied to "infantry company" in the Roman army (a tenth part of a legion, 400 to 600 men) by way of the notion of an "enclosed group, a retinue"; from com-, "with" + hortus. "garden".

1. An extent of open ground partially or completely enclosed by walls or buildings; a courtyard.
2. A short street, especially a wide alley walled by buildings on three sides.
3. A large open section of a building, often with a glass roof or skylight.
4. A large building, such as a mansion, standing in a courtyard.
5. The place of residence of a sovereign or dignitary; a royal mansion or palace.
6. The retinue of a sovereign, including the royal family and personal servants, advisers, and ministers.
7. A sovereign's governing body, including the council of ministers and state advisers.
8. A formal meeting or reception presided over by a sovereign.
9. In law, a person, or body of people, whose task is to hear and to submit a decision on cases of law.

The building, hall, or room in which such cases are heard and determined.

10. The regular session of a judicial assembly or a similar authorized tribunal having military or ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
11. In sports, an open level area marked with appropriate lines, upon which a game; such as, tennis, handball, or basketball, is played.
12. Etymology: from Old French curt, from Latin cortem, cors (earlier cohors), "enclosed yard"; and by extension (and perhaps by association with curia, "sovereign's assembly"), "those assembled in the yard; company, cohort"; from com-, "together" + the stem, hort-, related to hortus, "garden, plot of ground".

Sporting sense is from 1519, originally of tennis. Legal meaning is from 1292 (early assemblies for justice were overseen by the sovereign personally); courthouse is from 1483.

Court-martial is first indicated in 1571; as a verb, 1859. Courtier is from 1228; courtly, "having manners befitting a court" is from 1450. Courtship, "paying court to a woman with intention of marriage" is from 1596.

1. A prostitute or mistress, especially one associated with rich, powerful, or upper-class men or clients who are members of a royal court; or men of high social standing, who provide her with luxuries and status.
2. Etymology: from Middle French courtisane, from Italian cortigiana, "prostitute"; literally, "woman of the court"; feminine of cortigiano, "one attached to a court", from corte, "court", from Latin cortem, "enclosed yard".

Living and growing in gardens.

The Latin words hortus "garden plant" and cultura "culture" together form horticulture, classically defined as the culture or growing of garden plants.

Gardens, orchards, and nurseries in which fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamentl plants are cultivated.

Horticulturists work in plant propagation, crop production, plant breeding and genetic engineering, plant biochemistry, plant physiology, and the storage, processing, and transportation of fruits, berries, nuts, vegetables, flowers, trees, shrubs, and turf.

They improve crop yield, quality, nutritional value, and resistance to insects, diseases, and environmental stresses.

Someone who strives to improve crop yields, quality, nutritional value, and resistance to insects, diseases, and environmental stresses.

1. A small brownish songbird of the bunting family that has a grayish head, a yellow throat, and an orange-brown body.

It was formerly sometimes eaten as a delicacy. Native to: Europe, Asia, Africa.

2. Etymology: a Latin name Emberiza hortulana via Provençal French, "gardener"; from Latin hortulanus or hortus, "garden".

Honesty is praised and left out in the cold. Gardens, palaces, rich tables, old silver, and those embossed goats on the cups; men owe these to their crimes.

From Decimus Iunius (Junius) Iuvenalis (Juvenalis) (c. A.D. 60-117); Saturae, I, 74; who attacked the vices of the plutocrats, the wickedness and immorality of women and foreigners (particularly Greeks), and laments the decline of the ancient aristocratic virtues.