milliarium

Latin

Alternative forms

• miliārium

Etymology

From mīlle (“thousand”) +‎ -ārium (of purpose), via mīlliārius (“relating to thousands of steps, i.e., miles”).

Noun

mīlliārium n (genitive mīlliāriī or mīlliārī); second declension

1. milestone
2. column resembling a milestone

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mīlliārium	mīlliāria
Genitive	mīlliāriī mīlliārī1	mīlliāriōrum
Dative	mīlliāriō	mīlliāriīs
Accusative	mīlliārium	mīlliāria
Ablative	mīlliāriō	mīlliāriīs
Vocative	mīlliārium	mīlliāria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• mīlliārius

Descendants

See also mīlliārius:

• Catalan: miller
• Istriot: miera
• Italian: migliaio
• Portuguese: milheiro
• Sicilian: migghiaru
• Spanish: mijero

References

• “milliarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “milliarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers