χιλίαρχος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• χιλιάρχης (khiliárkhēs)

Etymology

From χίλιοι (khílioi, “thousand”) +‎ ἄρχω (árkhō, “to rule”). Calque of Old Median *hazārapatiš.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰiː.lí.ar.kʰos/ → /çiˈli.ar.xos/ → /çiˈli.ar.xos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰiː.lí.ar.kʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰiˈli.ar.kʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /çiˈli.ar.xos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /çiˈli.ar.xos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /çiˈli.ar.xos/

Noun

χῑλίᾰρχος • (khīlíarkhos) m (genitive χῑλιᾰ́ρχου); second declension

1. the commander of a thousand men, commander of a garrison
   • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 304
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.1.14
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 4.7
2. (used as a translation)
   1. (of the Persian visir)
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Artaxerxes 5
      • 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, Various History 1.21
      • 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 18.48
   2. (of the Latin tribunus militum)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ χῑλίᾰρχος; τοῦ χῑλιᾰ́ρχου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ χῑλίᾰρχος ho khīlíarkhos	τὼ χῑλιᾰ́ρχω tṑ khīliárkhō	οἱ χῑλίᾰρχοι hoi khīlíarkhoi
Genitive	τοῦ χῑλιᾰ́ρχου toû khīliárkhou	τοῖν χῑλιᾰ́ρχοιν toîn khīliárkhoin	τῶν χῑλιᾰ́ρχων tôn khīliárkhōn
Dative	τῷ χῑλιᾰ́ρχῳ tôi khīliárkhōi	τοῖν χῑλιᾰ́ρχοιν toîn khīliárkhoin	τοῖς χῑλιᾰ́ρχοις toîs khīliárkhois
Accusative	τὸν χῑλίᾰρχον tòn khīlíarkhon	τὼ χῑλιᾰ́ρχω tṑ khīliárkhō	τοὺς χῑλιᾰ́ρχους toùs khīliárkhous
Vocative	χῑλίᾰρχε khīlíarkhe	χῑλιᾰ́ρχω khīliárkhō	χῑλίᾰρχοι khīlíarkhoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Classical Syriac: ܟܝܠܝܪܟܐ, ܟܝܠܪܟܐ, ܟܠܝܐܪܟܐ, ܟܠܝܪܟܐ
• → Latin: chiliarchus (see there for further descendants)
• → Gothic: 𐌸𐌿𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌹𐍆𐌰𐌸𐍃 (þūsundifaþs) (calque)

See also

• δεκάρχος (dekárkhos)
• ἑκατόνταρχος (hekatóntarkhos)

Further reading

• “χιλίαρχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χιλίαρχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χιλίαρχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G5506 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[3], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • captain idem, page 112.
  • commander idem, page 146.
  • thousand idem, page 868.
  • tribune idem, page 894.