chiliarchus
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Latin[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek χιλίαρχος (khilíarkhos), itself a calque of Old Median *hazārapatiš.[1]
Noun[edit]
chiliarchus m (genitive chiliarchī); second declension
- chiliarch, commander of a thousand men in Ancient Greece
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | chiliarchus | chiliarchī |
Genitive | chiliarchī | chiliarchōrum |
Dative | chiliarchō | chiliarchīs |
Accusative | chiliarchum | chiliarchōs |
Ablative | chiliarchō | chiliarchīs |
Vocative | chiliarche | chiliarchī |
Descendants[edit]
- Spanish: quiliarca
- French: chiliarque
- Italian: chiliarca
- Portuguese: quiliarca
- → English: chiliarch
References[edit]
- ^ “Persian Loanwords and Names in Greek”, in Encyclopædia Iranica[1], 2017 May 7 (last accessed), archived from the original on 17 May 2017
Sources[edit]
- “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