chiliarch

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Equivalent to chilia- +‎ -arch.

Noun

chiliarch (plural chiliarches)

1. (historical) A commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece.
   • 1886, Anna Swanwick (translator), The Dramas of Aeschylus, 4th edition, The Persians, page 220, lines 306–307

     And Dadaces, the chiliarch, spear-struck,
     Forth from his galley leapt with nimble bound.

Translations

a commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece

• Armenian: հազարապետ (hy) (hazarapet)
• Bulgarian: хилядник (hiljadnik)
• French: chiliarque (fr) m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: χιλίαρχος m (khilíarkhos)

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• Italian: chiliarca m
• Persian: هزاربد (hezārbod)