The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromχιλιαρχία
- Latin · borrowed fromchiliarchia
- English todaychiliarchy
From Latin chiliarchia, from Ancient Greek χιλιαρχία (khiliarkhía), from χῑ́λιοι (khī́lioi, “1000”) + -αρχία (-arkhía, “-archy: rule by”). Equivalent to chilia- + -archy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.