χιλίων (chilion)

χιλίων is an Ancient Greek form of χίλιος, meaning “a thousand”.

It can also be a form of χίλιοι, “a thousand”. It is the genitive plural feminine adjective.

Found 236 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.10.4: πεποίηκε γὰρ χιλίων καὶ διακοσίων νεῶν τὰς μὲν Βοιωτῶν εἴκοσι καὶ ἑκατὸν ἀνδρῶν, τὰς δὲ Φιλοκτήτου πεντήκοντα, δηλῶν, ὡς ἐμοὶ δοκ …

Aristophanes, Knights 660: τῇ δʼ Ἀγροτέρᾳ κατὰ χιλιῶν παρῄνεσα

All forms of χίλιος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.