χιλιάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
 

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
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