Meanings
plural chiliarchs
- historicalA 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 306–3071 more example
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
Origin
- Latinchiliarchus
- Ancient Greekχιλίαρχος
- Englishchiliarch
Borrowed from Ancient Greek χιλίαρχος (khilíarkhos) via Latin chiliarchus.
More words from Ancient Greek, Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek χιλίαρχος
- χιλίαρχος (khilíarkhos)a commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece
Bulgarian хилядник
- хилядник (hiljadnik)a commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece
French chiliarque
- chiliarquea commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece
Italian chiliarca
- chiliarcaa commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece
Persian هزاربد
- هزاربد (hezârbod)a commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece
Cite this entry
chiliarch. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chiliarch
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