millesimus

Latin

Latin numbers ^(edit)

←  900	←  999	M 1,000	1,000,000 (106)  →
		100
Cardinal: mīlle     Ordinal: mīllēsimus     Adverbial: mīlliēns, mīlliēs     Distributive: mīllēnus

Etymology

From mīllē (“thousand”) +‎ -ēsimus (“-th”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /miːlˈleː.si.mus/, [miːlˈlʲeːs̠ɪmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /milˈle.si.mus/, [milˈlɛːs̬imus]

Numeral

mīllēsimus (feminine mīllēsima, neuter mīllēsimum); first/second-declension numeral

1. thousandth

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	mīllēsimus	mīllēsima	mīllēsimum		mīllēsimī	mīllēsimae	mīllēsima
Genitive	mīllēsimī	mīllēsimae	mīllēsimī		mīllēsimōrum	mīllēsimārum	mīllēsimōrum
Dative	mīllēsimō		mīllēsimō		mīllēsimīs
Accusative	mīllēsimum	mīllēsimam	mīllēsimum		mīllēsimōs	mīllēsimās	mīllēsima
Ablative	mīllēsimō	mīllēsimā	mīllēsimō		mīllēsimīs
Vocative	mīllēsime	mīllēsima	mīllēsimum		mīllēsimī	mīllēsimae	mīllēsima

Descendants

• Catalan: mil·lèsim
• Old French: millesme
  • Middle French: milliesme
    • French: millième
• → French: millésime (learned)
• Galician: milésimo
• Italian: millesimo
• Occitan: millesim
• Portuguese: milésimo
• Spanish: milésimo

References

• “millesimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “millesimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• millesimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.