chiliarch
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek χιλίαρχος (khilíarkhos), from χίλιοι (khílioi, “thousand”) + ἄρχω (árkhō, “to rule”), itself a calque of Old Iranian *hazāra-pati-.[1]
Noun
chiliarch (plural chiliarchs)
- (historical) A commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece.
- 1886, Anna Swanwick (translator), The Dramas of Aeschylus, 4th edition, The Persians, page 220, lines 306–307
- And Dadaces, the chiliarch, spear-struck,
Forth from his galley leapt with nimble bound.
- And Dadaces, the chiliarch, spear-struck,
- 1982, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXIV, in The Sword of the Lictor (The Book of the New Sun; 3), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 179:
- 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.
- 1886, Anna Swanwick (translator), The Dramas of Aeschylus, 4th edition, The Persians, page 220, lines 306–307
Translations
a commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece
|
References
- “Persian Loanwords and Names in Greek”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, 2017 May 7 (last accessed), archived from the original on 17 May 2017
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.