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χίλιοι

chilioi

a thousand

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Where it lives

  • 2 Peter 2 · 18.47/10k
  • Canticum 3 · 15.42/10k
  • Esdras II 16 · 13.48/10k
  • Esdras I 10 · 12.16/10k
  • Revelation 9 · 9.1/10k
  • Paralipomenon I 12 · 9.03/10k
  • Judices (cod. Al.) 9 · 6.15/10k
  • Ways and Means 2 · 5.23/10k
  • Machabaeorum II 6 · 5.19/10k
  • Athenian Constitution 8 · 4.91/10k
  • Ecclesiastes 2 · 4.42/10k
  • History 66 · 4.41/10k

Densest 12 of 55 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

a thousand, the Thousand

a thousand, Hom. only in neut., χ. μέτρα, πυρά, Il. 7.471, 8.562; πρῶθʼ ἑκατὸν βοῦς δῶκεν, ἔπειτα δὲ χίλιʼ ὑπέστη (sc. πρόβατα), αἶγας ὁμοῦ καὶ ὄϊς 11.244: usu. agreeing with its Subst., Hes. Th. 364, etc.; but sts. as Subst. folld. by gen., χίλιοι Μακεδόνων Th. 2.80: to express the addition of a smaller number, that number may either precede or follow, διακόσιοι καὶ χ. Isoc. 4.87, 93, Pl. Criti. 119b: but χ. καὶ πεντακόσιοι Aeschin. 2.77; later καί is freq. omitted, Plb. 3.33.10, LXX Da. 12.11,

2 a thousand, of 1000 cattle

sg. with collect. nouns, χιλίη ἵππος a thousand horse, Hdt. 5.63, 7.41; τὴν ἵππον τὴν χιλίην Id. 8.113; so ἵππον ἔχω εἰς χιλίαν X. Cyr. 4.6.2; also χιλία ὁλοκαύτωσις burnt-offering of 1000 cattle, LXX 3 Ki. 3.4.

3 a thousand drachmae

χίλιαι (sc. δραχμαί) as Subst., a thousand drachmae, περὶ χιλιῶν κινδυνεύειν D. 22.21; ἐν χιλίαις ὁ κίνδυνος ib. 26 (χ. δραχμαί in full, Pl. Ap. 36b). (Cf. Skt. sahásram ‘a thousand’ (with prefix sa- = sṃ-); I.-E. ĝheslo-, ĝheslio-.)

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Where it came from

  • Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. χίλιοι (scan pp. 1684-1685; entry #6568). Root candidates: *g’eslo-.
  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. χίλιοι (scan p. 1280; entry #8739). Root candidates: *gheslo-.
  • Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. χίλιοι (scan pp. 2071-2072; entry #6100). Root candidates: *gheslo-, *xeo-.

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