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EnglishEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mil (plural mils)

  1. An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to 16400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also 16000 and 16300 are used in other countries.
  2. A unit of measurement equal to 11000 of an inch (25.4 µm), usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic.
  3. a former subdivision (11000) of the Maltese lira
  4. (informal, plural "mil") Abbreviation of million.
    • 2009, Bob Frey, The DVD Murders (page 39)
      The cheapest shack in this part of the woods would probably set the buyer back at least a couple of mil.
    • 2010 September, Galen Gondolfi, "Idea Fun(d)", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 79:
      You can get things done without money, but you can do a hell of a lot more with it, and $10 mil is a good starting point.
  5. (informal) Clipping of milliliter; mL.

TranslationsEdit

See alsoEdit

AnagramsEdit

AragoneseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Akin to Spanish mil, from Latin mille.

NumeralEdit

mil

  1. thousand

AsturianEdit

Asturian cardinal numbers
 <  999 1000 1001  > 
    Cardinal : mil
    Ordinal : milésimu

EtymologyEdit

From Latin mīlle.

NumeralEdit

mil (indeclinable)

  1. one thousand; 1000
    mil llobosone thousand wolves
    mil vaquesone thousand cows

Usage notesEdit

In compound numbers, mil does not inflect or change:

  • mil dosone thousand two
  • mil trenta y nueveone thousand thirty-nine
  • tres milthree thousand
  • venti miltwenty thousand

BretonEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle Breton mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil, from Latin mīlia. Cognate with Cornish mil, Welsh mil, Irish míle.

NumeralEdit

mil

  1. thousand

Etymology 2Edit

From Middle Breton mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil (compare Cornish myl, Welsh mil), from Proto-Celtic *mīlom (compare Old Irish míl and its descendants; Irish míol, Scottish Gaelic míl, Manx meeyl), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₁l- (small animal”).

Compare Ancient Greek μῆλον (mêlon, lamb), Armenian մալ (mal, sheep; mutton; wether; cattle; livestock), Central Kurdish ماڵ (mall, livestock), Dutch maal (calf).

NounEdit

mil m (plural miled)

  1. (rare) animal
    Synonyms: aneval, loen

MutationEdit

CatalanEdit

Catalan numbers (edit)
 ←  100  ←  900 1,000 1,000,000 (106)  → 
100
    Cardinal: mil
    Ordinal (Central): milè
    Ordinal (Valencian): milé
    Ordinal: mil·lèsim
Catalan Wikipedia article on 1,000

EtymologyEdit

From Old Catalan mil, from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (one thousand).

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

mil m or f

  1. (cardinal number) thousand

NounEdit

mil m (plural mils)

  1. thousand

Further readingEdit

CebuanoEdit

Cebuano numbers (edit)
10,000
[a], [b], [c] ←  100  ←  900 1,000 2,000  →  10,000  → 
100[a], [b], [c]
    Cardinal: usá ka libo, libo
    Spanish cardinal: mil

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Spanish mil, from Old Spanish [[mil, mill#Old Spanish|mil, mill]], from Latin mīlle.

PronunciationEdit

  • Hyphenation: mil

NumeralEdit

mil

  1. thousand

QuotationsEdit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mil.

ChavacanoEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Spanish mil (thousand).

NumeralEdit

mil

  1. thousand

DalmatianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

NounEdit

mil m

  1. honey

DanishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed through Low German, from Latin mil(l)ia (passum) "thousand (steps)."

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mil

  1. mile, unit of length of varying value

DeclensionEdit

Derived termsEdit

EsperantoEdit

Esperanto numbers (edit)
 ←  100  ←  900 1,000
100
    Cardinal: mil
    Ordinal: mila
    Adverbial: mile
    Multiplier: milobla, milopa
    Fractional: milona, milono

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin mīlle. Doublet of mejlo.

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

mil

  1. thousand

EstonianEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmil/, [ˈmil]
  • Hyphenation: mil

Etymology 1Edit

Clipping of millal.

ConjunctionEdit

mil

  1. when
    Kord tuleb päev, mil tuleb minna.
    There will once be a day when we have to go.

Etymology 2Edit

Clipping of millel.

AdverbEdit

mil (not comparable)

  1. that
    Tänaval oli auto, mil olid punased triibud.
    There was a car on the street that had red stripes.

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin milium.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mil m (plural mils)

  1. (now dialectal) millet
    Synonym: millet

Further readingEdit

FriulianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin mīlle.

NumeralEdit

mil

  1. thousand

GalicianEdit

Galician numbers (edit)
 ←  100  ←  900 1,000
100
    Cardinal: mil
    Ordinal: milésimo
    Fractional: milésimo
 
Carro
 
Carro

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese mil, from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (one thousand).

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

mil (indeclinable)

  1. one thousand; 1000

Etymology 2Edit

1474. From Vulgar Latin *medianile, from Latin mediānus. Compare the cognates mión and molo.[1]

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mil m (plural miles)

  1. central piece of the Galician cart wheel
    • 1474, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 66:
      Iten, preçaron hun rrodisioe dous miilles de carro em noventa maravedis
      Item, they appraised a water wheel and two wheel centers of a cart in ninety maravedis
    Synonyms: mión, miúl, molo

ReferencesEdit

  • mil” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • miil” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • mil” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • mil” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • mil” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • mil” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ Cf. Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “medio”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

GamilaraayEdit

NounEdit

mil

  1. eye

Haitian CreoleEdit

NounEdit

mil

  1. thousand
  2. mile (measure of distance)

IdoEdit

Ido numbers (edit)
 ←  1  ←  100 1,000
    Cardinal: mil
    Ordinal: milesma
    Adverbial: milfoye
    Multiplier: milopla
    Fractional: milima

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Esperanto milFrench milleItalian milleSpanish mil, from Latin mīlle.

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

mil

  1. thousand

IlocanoEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Spanish mil.

PronunciationEdit

  • Hyphenation: mil
  • IPA(key): /ˈmil/, [ˈmil]

NumeralEdit

mil

  1. thousand
    Synonym: ribo

IndonesianEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Dutch mijl, from Middle Dutch mile, ultimately from Latin mīlia.

NounEdit

mil (plural mil-mil, first-person possessive milku, second-person possessive milmu, third-person possessive milnya)

  1. English or American mile, a unit of distance equivalent to about 1.6 km
  2. (historical) mijl, Dutch mile or league, a unit of distance equivalent to about 5–6 km
  3. milepost, milestone, km marker
    Synonyms: batu, pal, tonggak
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From English mail, from Middle English male, from Anglo-Norman male, Old French male (bag, wallet), from Frankish *malha (bag), from Proto-Germanic *malhō (bag, pouch), from Proto-Indo-European *molko- (leather pouch).

NounEdit

mil (plural mil-mil, first-person possessive milku, second-person possessive milmu, third-person possessive milnya)

  1. (colloquial) mail: the material conveyed by the postal service.

Further readingEdit

IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish mil, from Proto-Celtic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognate with Latin mel, Ancient Greek μέλι (méli). Akin to milis and blas.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mil f (genitive singular meala)

  1. honey

DeclensionEdit

Derived termsEdit

MutationEdit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
mil mhil not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further readingEdit

KabuverdianuEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Portuguese mil.

NumeralEdit

mil

  1. thousand (1000)

LadinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

NounEdit

mil f (plural [please provide])

  1. honey

Louisiana CreoleEdit

Louisiana Creole cardinal numbers
 <  999 1,000 1,001  > 
    Cardinal : mil

EtymologyEdit

From French mille (thousand).

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

mil

  1. thousand.

LuleEdit

PronounEdit

mil

  1. you (plural)

ReferencesEdit

  • Antonio Maccioni / Machoni, Arte y vocabulario de la lengua lule y tonocoté (1732)

MalteseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Arabic مِيل (mīl).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mil m (dual milejn, plural mjiel or mili)

  1. mile

MòchenoEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle High German mül, müle, from Old High German mulī, mulin, from Proto-Germanic *mulīnō, *mulīnaz, from Late Latin molīnum (mill). Cognate with German Mühle, English mill.

NounEdit

mil f

  1. mill

ReferencesEdit

NgiyambaaEdit

NounEdit

mil

  1. (anatomy) eye

Northern KurdishEdit

NounEdit

mil ?

  1. arm
  2. shoulder
  3. neck

Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Latin milia, millia and Old Norse míla.

NounEdit

mil m or f (definite singular mila or milen, indefinite plural mil, definite plural milene)

  1. (today in Norway) a distance of 10 kilometres
  2. gammel norsk mil - old Norwegian mile, a distance of 11.3 kilometres
  3. engelsk mil - a mile, 1.609 kilometres, as used in Britain and the US.

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Latin milia, millia and Old Norse míla.

NounEdit

mil f (definite singular mila, indefinite plural mil, definite plural milene)

  1. (today in Norway) a distance of 10 kilometres
  2. gammal norsk mil - old Norwegian mile, a distance of 11.3 kilometres
  3. engelsk mil - a mile, 1.609 kilometres, as used in Britain and the US.

Usage notesEdit

Indefinite plural miler was made non-standard by the spelling reform of 2012.

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

OccitanEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin mīlle.

NumeralEdit

mil

  1. thousand

Related termsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians[1], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 648.

Old EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin mīlia, plural of the numeral mīlle.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mīl f

  1. mile

DeclensionEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Middle English: myle, mile

Old FrenchEdit

NumeralEdit

mil

  1. Alternative form of mile (thousand)

Old IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Celtic *meli n, from Proto-Indo-European *mélit.

NounEdit

mil f (genitive melo)

  1. honey
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 7d9
      Hi sunt tra ↄ·ricc frissa lind serb in chúrsactha lase foruillecta beóil in chalich di mil cosse anall...
      Herein, then, he comes into contact with the bitter drink of the reproval, when the lips of the chalice have hitherto been smeared with honey...

InflectionEdit

Feminine i-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative mil
Vocative mil
Accusative milN
Genitive meloH, melaH
Dative milL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

DescendantsEdit

MutationEdit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
mil
also mmil after a proclitic
mil
pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further readingEdit

PapiamentuEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Spanish mil and Portuguese mil and Kabuverdianu mil.

NumeralEdit

mil

  1. thousand (1000)

PortugueseEdit

Portuguese numbers (edit)
[a], [b] ←  100  ←  900 1,000 10,000  →  1,000,000 (106)  → 
100[a], [b]
    Cardinal: mil
    Ordinal: milésimo
    Ordinal abbreviation: 1000.º
    Fractional: milésimo, mil avos

EtymologyEdit

From Old Galician-Portuguese mil, from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (one thousand).

PronunciationEdit

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -il, (Brazil) -iw
  • Hyphenation: mil

AdjectiveEdit

mil m or f

  1. one thousand; a thousand; 1000
  2. (somewhat poetic) thousands of (very many)
    Synonyms: milhares de, um milhão de

QuotationsEdit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mil.

Related termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

RomanianEdit

NounEdit

mil n (plural miluri)

  1. Obsolete form of milă.

DeclensionEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • mil in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Scottish GaelicEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish mil (genitive mela), from Proto-Celtic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognate with Welsh mêl, Cornish mill, Breton mel, Latin mel, Greek μέλι (méli), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 (miliþ), Old Armenian մեղր (mełr).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mil f (genitive singular mealach or meala, plural mealan)

  1. honey

Related termsEdit

MutationEdit

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
mil mhil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

ReferencesEdit

  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “mil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “mil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

SloveneEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *milъ. Cognate with Polish miły.

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

mȋl (comparative milȇjši, superlative nȁjmilȇjši)

  1. kind
  2. dear

InflectionEdit

Hard
masculine feminine neuter
nom. sing. míl míla mílo
singular
masculine feminine neuter
nominative míl ind
míli def
míla mílo
genitive mílega míle mílega
dative mílemu míli mílemu
accusative nominativeinan or
genitive
anim
mílo mílo
locative mílem míli mílem
instrumental mílim mílo mílim
dual
masculine feminine neuter
nominative míla míli míli
genitive mílih mílih mílih
dative mílima mílima mílima
accusative míla míli míli
locative mílih mílih mílih
instrumental mílima mílima mílima
plural
masculine feminine neuter
nominative míli míle míla
genitive mílih mílih mílih
dative mílim mílim mílim
accusative míle míle míla
locative mílih mílih mílih
instrumental mílimi mílimi mílimi

Further readingEdit

  • mil”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

SpanishEdit

Spanish numbers (edit)
10,000
[a], [b] ←  100  ←  900 1,000 2,000  →  10,000  → 
100[a], [b]
    Cardinal: mil
    Ordinal: milésimo
    Ordinal abbreviation: 1000.º
    Fractional: milésimo

EtymologyEdit

From Old Spanish [[mil, mill#Old Spanish|mil, mill]], from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (one thousand).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmil/ [ˈmil]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -il
  • Syllabification: mil

NumeralEdit

mil

  1. thousand

Usage notesEdit

  • When pluralized as a specific number, the form mil is still used:
    dos mil pesostwo thousand pesos
    cien mil pesosone hundred thousand pesos

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

NounEdit

mil m (plural miles)

  1. (usually in the plural) thousand (1000 units of something) (usually in an indefinite sense)
    Gané muchos miles de dólares.
    I earned many thousands of dollars

Further readingEdit

SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed through Low German, from Latin mil(l)ia (passum) "thousand (steps)."

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mil c

  1. (after 1889) Unit of length, equal to 10,000 meters
    Synonyms: nymil, myriameter
  2. (between 1699 and 1889) Unit of length, equal to 10,688.54 meters
    Synonym: landmil

DeclensionEdit

Declension of mil 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative mil milen mil milen
Genitive mils milens mils milens

Derived termsEdit

AnagramsEdit

TagalogEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Spanish mil, from Latin mīlle.

PronunciationEdit

  • Hyphenation: mil
  • IPA(key): /ˈmil/, [ˈmil]

NumeralEdit

mil (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜎ᜔)

  1. thousand
    Synonym: libo

Related termsEdit

Further readingEdit

TatarEdit

NounEdit

mil

  1. (archaic) a unit of length: 1 mil = 7 çaqrım = 7.467 km (see Obsolete Tatar units of measurement)

DeclensionEdit

TurkishEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mil (definite accusative mili, plural miller)

  1. mile (measure of length)

VolapükEdit

NumeralEdit

mil

  1. thousand

VurësEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French mille, from Latin mīlle.[1]

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mil

  1. One thousand vatu (currency of Vanuatu).

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Catriona Malau (September 2021), “mil”, in A Dictionary of Vurës, Vanuatu (Asia-Pacific Linguistics), Australian National University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 121

WelshEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle Welsh mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil (compare Cornish myl, Breton mil), from Proto-Celtic *mīlom (compare Old Irish míl and its descendants; Irish míol, Scottish Gaelic míl, Manx meeyl), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₁l- (small animal”).

Compare Ancient Greek μῆλον (mêlon, lamb), Armenian մալ (mal, sheep; mutton; wether; cattle; livestock), Central Kurdish ماڵ (mall, livestock), Dutch maal (calf).

NounEdit

mil m (plural milod)

  1. animal, beast, creature
  2. vermin (animal not normally eaten by people)
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Middle Welsh mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil, from Latin mīlia. Cognate with Cornish mil, Breton mil, Irish míle.

NumeralEdit

mil f (plural miloedd)

  1. (cardinal number) one thousand
Related termsEdit

MutationEdit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
mil fil unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

ReferencesEdit

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), chapter MIL, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

WiradhuriEdit

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

mil

  1. (anatomy) eye

YagaraEdit

NounEdit

mil

  1. eye

ReferencesEdit

YapeseEdit

VerbEdit

mil

  1. to run