χιλιάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From χῑ́λιοι (khī́lioi, “thousand”) +‎ -ᾰ́ς (-ắs).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

χῑλῐᾰ́ς • (khīlĭắs) f (genitive χῑλῐᾰ́δος); third declension

  1. 1000, the number one thousand
  2. lots, any large and difficult to count amount
  3. millennium, a period of 1000 years

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ χῑλῐᾰ́ς; τῆς χῑλῐᾰ́δος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ χῑλῐᾰ́ς
hē khīlĭắs 		τὼ χῑλῐᾰ́δε
tṑ khīlĭắde 		αἱ χῑλῐᾰ́δες
hai khīlĭắdes
Genitive τῆς χῑλῐᾰ́δος
tês khīlĭắdos 		τοῖν χῑλῐᾰ́δοιν
toîn khīlĭắdoin 		τῶν χῑλῐᾰ́δων
tôn khīlĭắdōn
Dative τῇ χῑλῐᾰ́δῐ
tēî khīlĭắdĭ 		τοῖν χῑλῐᾰ́δοιν
toîn khīlĭắdoin 		ταῖς χῑλῐᾰ́σῐ / χῑλῐᾰ́σῐν
taîs khīlĭắsĭ(n)
Accusative τὴν χῑλῐᾰ́δᾰ
tḕn khīlĭắdă 		τὼ χῑλῐᾰ́δε
tṑ khīlĭắde 		τᾱ̀ς χῑλῐᾰ́δᾰς
tā̀s khīlĭắdăs
Vocative χῑλῐᾰ́ς
khīlĭắs 		χῑλῐᾰ́δε
khīlĭắde 		χῑλῐᾰ́δες
khīlĭắdes
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
  • Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

  • Greek: χιλιάδα (chiliáda), χίλια (chília)
  • → Bulgarian: хиляда (hiljada)
  • → Macedonian: илјада (iljada)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: hiljada
  • → English: chiliad

References

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