χιλίαρχος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • χιλιάρχης (khiliárkhēs)

Etymology

From χίλιοι (khílioi, “thousand”) +‎ ἄρχω (árkhō, “to rule”). Calque of Old Median *Hazahrapati- (“commander of thousand [men]”),[1][2] from *hazahra- (“thousand”) + *pati- (“lord, master”).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

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

  1. the commander of a thousand men, commander of a garrison
  2. (used as a translation)
    1. (of the Persian visir)
    2. (of the Latin tribunus militum)

Inflection

Descendants

See also

Further reading

  1. Hinz, Walther (1975) Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎ (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 120
  2. “Persian Loanwords and Names in Greek”, in Encyclopædia Iranica‎, 2002 December 15
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