loque

wreck, basket case; rags; fabric scrap

From Middle French loque, loc (“lock of hair; tuft of coarse wool”), from Middle Dutch locke (“curl”) or Middle English lok (“lock of hair”); both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *lokk (“lock (of hair)”), from Proto-Germanic *lukkaz (“lock (of hair)”). More at English lock.

lochus (a military unit headed by a lochagus)

“Le loque était composé de quatre pentécostys, et comme la pentécostys était de cent vingt-huit hommes, le loque en contenait cinq cent douze.”

From Latin lochus, from Ancient Greek λόχος (lókhos).