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khilioi
Greek · ancient
"thousand"
thousand, combined with French metre for a thousand meters
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kilometre
French · 1790s
"a thousand meters"
coined during the French Revolution's new metric system
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kilometer
English · 1800s
"a unit of length equal to a thousand meters"
settled as the English spelling of the metric unit
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