The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromχίλιοι“thousand”
- Latin · borrowed fromchilias
- English todaychilia-
From Latin chilias, itself from Ancient Greek χίλιοι (khílioi, “thousand”). Doublet of kilo-.
Words from the same roots
Latinchilias all →
chiliad
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.