chiliad
[kil-ee-ad]
- a group of 1000.
- a period of 1000 years.
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Origin of chiliad
1590–1600; < Late Latin chīliad- (stem of chīlias) < Greek, equivalent to chī́li(oi) 1000 + -ad- -ad1
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Or, from the Greek, chiliad; and hence the word chiliasm, expressing the belief in a millennium.
AnarchismE. V. Zenker
These probably included the logarithms of the first chiliad which he published in 1617.
chiliad
- a group of one thousand
- one thousand years
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Word Origin
C16: from Greek khilias, from khilioi a thousand
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Word Origin and History for chiliad
n.
"group of 1,000" (of the same sort), 1590s, from Latinized form of Greek khiliados, from khilioi "a thousand; the number 1,000" (see chiliasm).
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