Chiliad = thousand (leo.org says so)

[MoniqueMaRie]

Browsing through the dictionaries I found in leo.org (German -English) as the first offered translation for "tausend" "chiliad", a word I never consciously came accross before (though I have been reading English books at least for the last thirty years).

Other DE-EN dictionaries didn't know this word.

Is it really used anywhere for the number thousand?

I was already asking the www. It offered Mount Chiliad saying it was a Latin word meaning a group of one thousand. But there is no "ch" in latin. As a latin word I would offer "miliarius".

[g-heike]

The dict.cc says Jahrtausend: https://www.dict.cc/?source=firefox-add ... &s=chiliad

[pawndemic]

I always like to ask the language itself, sometimes there are crazy things in the dictionaries

Well merriam-webster says it is a group of thousand.

What is the difference between a chiliad and a millennium?

What's the difference between a chiliad and a millennium? Not much: both are a period of 1000 years. While millennium is more widely used, chiliad is actually older. Chiliad first appeared in the late 1500s and was originally used to mean "a group of 1000," as in "a chiliad of arrows"; millennium didn't make its way into written English until some decades later, in the early 1600s. Not surprisingly, both words trace back to roots that mean "thousand." Millennium comes from Latin mille, and chiliad is a descendant of Greek chilioi.

merriam-webster Definition of chiliad

[MoniqueMaRie]

So I learned a bit of older English.

I will probably never forget this word again.