chiliarchus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[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.
| 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