chiliarchus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χιλίαρχος (khilíarkhos), itself a calque of Old Median *hazārapatiš.[1]

Noun

chiliarchus m (genitive chiliarchī); second declension

  1. chiliarch, commander of a thousand men in Ancient Greece

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative chiliarchus chiliarchī
genitive chiliarchī chiliarchōrum
dative chiliarchō chiliarchīs
accusative chiliarchum chiliarchōs
ablative chiliarchō chiliarchīs
vocative chiliarche chiliarchī

Descendants

  • Spanish: quiliarca
  • French: chiliarque
  • Italian: chiliarca
  • Portuguese: quiliarca
  • English: chiliarch

References

  1. ^ “Persian Loanwords and Names in Greek”, in Encyclopædia Iranica[1], 7 May 2017 (last accessed), archived from the original on 17 May 2017

Sources

  • chiliarchus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • chiliarchus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • chiliarchus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin