chiliarch
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece.
Example Sentences
- "And Dadaces, the chiliarch, spear-struck, Forth from his galley leapt with nimble bound."
- "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."
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek χιλίαρχος (khilíarkhos) via Latin chiliarchus.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: chiliarchus