An arbitrary derivative of Gr. χίλιοι a thousand, introduced in French in 1795, at the institution of the Metric system, as a formative of weights and measures containing 1000 times the simple unit. Also Kilo sb., familiar abbreviation of KILOGRAMME.
1870. Daily News, 2 Dec., 5/2. They provide the bread at 35cent. a kilo, the same price as the society paid in Belgium.
1887. Moloney, Forestry W. Afr., 77. The price for each hundred kilos of oil produced … varies according to the pressures.
