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chiliarch en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χιλίαρχος (khilíarkhos) via Latin chiliarchus.

Meanings

1. (historical) A commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece.
   • And Dadaces, the chiliarch, spear-struck, Forth from his galley leapt with nimble bound. 1886, Anna Swanwick (translator), The Dramas of Aeschylus, 4th edition, The Persians, page 220, lines 306–307
   • When I had seen it, I halted and turned to look up at the peak on whose slope we walked. I could see the face now and its mitre of ice, and below it the left shoulder, where a thousand cavalrymen might have been exercised by their chiliarch. 1982, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXIV, in The Sword of the Lictor (The Book of the New Sun; 3), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 179:

Forms

Translations (11)

fa هزاربد (a commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece) · fr chiliarque (a commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece) · syc ܗܙܪܦܬ (a commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece) · grc χιλίαρχος (a commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece) · it chiliarca (a commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece) · ang þūsendealdormann (a commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece) · xpr 𐭇𐭆𐭓𐭅𐭐𐭕 (a commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece) · hbo אַלּוּף (a commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece) · bg хилядник (a commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece) · pal 𐭧𐭦𐭠𐭫𐭥𐭯𐭲 (a commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece) · hy հազարապետ (a commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece)