Etymology

chilia-

Today it means: thousand; thousandfold. Full definition →

Latin chilias ← Ancient Greek χίλιοι
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromχίλιοι“thousand”
  2. Latin · borrowed fromchilias
  3. English todaychilia-

From Latin chilias, itself from Ancient Greek χίλιοι (khílioi, “thousand”). Doublet of kilo-.

Words from the same roots

Latinchilias all →

chiliad

Ancient Greekχίλιοι all →

kilometrekilo-

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.