chiliad

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromχιλιάς“the number 1000, any large amount, a millennium”
2. French · derived fromchiliade
3. Latin · borrowed fromchilias“the number 1000, a group of 1000 things”
4. English todaychiliad

From Latin chilias (“the number 1000, a group of 1000 things”), possibly via French chiliade, from Ancient Greek χιλιάς (khiliás, “the number 1000, any large amount, a millennium”), from χῑ́λιοι (khī́lioi, “1000”) + -ᾰ́ς (-ắs, “-ad: forming collective nouns”). Equivalent to chilia- + -ad.

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