Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• χιλιάρχης ‎(khiliárkhēs)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /xilíarxos/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xilíarxos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xilíaɾxos/

Noun

χιλίαρχος • ‎(khilíarkhos) m ‎(genitive χιλιάρχου); second declension

1. the commander of a thousand men, commander of a garrison
   • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 304
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.1.14
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 4.7
2. (used as a translation)
   1. (of the Persian visir)
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Artaxerxes 5
      • 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, Various History 1.21
      • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Library 18.48
   2. (of the Latin tribunus militum)

Inflection

References

• χιλίαρχος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χιλίαρχος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «χιλίαρχος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G5506”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • captain idem, page 112.
  • commander idem, page 146.
  • thousand idem, page 868.
  • tribune idem, page 894.