χιλιάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From χῑ́λιοι (khī́lioi, “thousand”) +‎ -ᾰ́ς (-ás).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰiː.li.ás/ → /çi.liˈas/ → /çi.liˈas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰiː.li.ás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰi.liˈas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /çi.liˈas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /çi.liˈas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /çi.liˈas/

Noun

χῑλῐᾰ́ς • (khīliás) f (genitive χῑλῐᾰ́δος); third declension

1. 1000, the number one thousand
2. lots, any large and difficult to count amount
3. millennium, a period of 1000 years

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ χῑλῐᾰ́ς; τῆς χῑλῐᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χῑλῐᾰ́ς hē khīliás	τὼ χῑλῐᾰ́δε tṑ khīliáde	αἱ χῑλῐᾰ́δες hai khīliádes
Genitive	τῆς χῑλῐᾰ́δος tês khīliádos	τοῖν χῑλῐᾰ́δοιν toîn khīliádoin	τῶν χῑλῐᾰ́δων tôn khīliádōn
Dative	τῇ χῑλῐᾰ́δῐ têi khīliádi	τοῖν χῑλῐᾰ́δοιν toîn khīliádoin	ταῖς χῑλῐᾰ́σῐ / χῑλῐᾰ́σῐν taîs khīliási(n)
Accusative	τὴν χῑλῐᾰ́δᾰ tḕn khīliáda	τὼ χῑλῐᾰ́δε tṑ khīliáde	τᾱ̀ς χῑλῐᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s khīliádas
Vocative	χῑλῐᾰ́ς khīliás	χῑλῐᾰ́δε khīliáde	χῑλῐᾰ́δες khīliádes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• Greek: χιλιάδα (chiliáda), χίλια (chília)
• → Bulgarian: хиляда (hiljada)
• → Macedonian: илјада (iljada)
• → Serbo-Croatian: hiljada
• → English: chiliad

References

• “χιλιάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χιλιάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χιλιάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G5505 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • thousand idem, page 868.