Jan. 9th, 2006

chiliad

Jan. 9th, 2006 07:12 am
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chiliad - n., a group of 1000; esp., a thousand years, a millenium.


From Greek chilioi, thousand, which also gave us the metric prefix kilo-. By which you might guess, that's a hard ch, as in Achilles.

---L.

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