mille

Borrowed from French mille, from Latin mīlle.

• IPA^(key): /mil/, /ˈmi.lə/

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• Hyphenation: mil‧le

mille n (uncountable)

1. grand (sum of the value of 1,000 monetary units)

• Rhymes: -ilːe

mille

1. Allative singular form of mikä.
2. Allative plural form of mikä.

From Middle French mille, from Old French mile, from Latin mīlle (“thousand”) (plural mīlia), from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”).

• IPA^(key): /mil/

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• Rhymes: -il

mille

1. thousand, a thousand, one thousand

   Presque mille enfants y habitent. — Almost a thousand children live there.

mille m (plural milles)

1. thousand
2. mile (abbreviation mi)
3. nautical mile (short for mille nautique)

• → Garifuna: milu (possibly)

• kilo-

• “mille” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.lːe/, [ˈmil̺.l̺e]
• Hyphenation: mìl‧le

mille m or f (invariable, plural mila)

1. thousand

mille m (plural mille)

1. thousand

• Appendix:Italian numbers
• chilo-

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːl.le/, [ˈmiːl.lɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmil.le/

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From Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”), from *ǵʰes- (“hand”) (whence also hir, Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír)), as if “full hand”.[1] Cognates include Ancient Greek χίλιοι (khílioi) and Sanskrit सहस्र (sahásra).

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mīlle (genitive mīlle); third declension

1. innumerable, a vast number

mīlle m or f or n (plural mīlia); irregular

1. thousand; 1000
   • 405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Ezras 1:9

     Et hic est numerus eorum: fialae aureae triginta, fialae argenteae mille, cultri viginti novem, scyphi aurei triginta.

     And this is their number: thirty gold fialae, a thousand silver fialae, twenty-nine knives, thirty gold cups.

The singular form behaves as an indeclinable adjective, but the plural behaves as a declinable neuter noun of the third declension. See Appendix:Latin cardinal numerals for additional information.

• mīlle passūs
• mīlle passuum

• mīlliārium
• mīlliārius
• mīllēnārius

• Aromanian: njilje
• Dalmatian: mel
• Friulian: mil
• Italian: mille
  • ⇒ Italian: milione (see there for further descendants)
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: mil
• Old French: mile, mil
  • Middle French: mille, mil, mile
    • French: mille
      • → Garifuna: milu (possibly)
  • Norman: mille (Jersey)
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: mil
  • Mirandese: mil
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: mil
  • Occitan: mila, mil
• Old Portuguese: mil
  • Galician: mil
  • Portuguese: mil
    • → Kadiwéu: miili
• Old Spanish: mil, mill,
  • Spanish: mil
    • → Navajo: mííl
    • → Taos: míl, mílą
• Romanian: mie
• Romansch: milli
• Sardinian: mila, milli
• Sicilian: milli, middi
• → Albanian: mijë
• → Basque: mila
• → Breton: mil
• → Germanic: *mīlijō (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Irish: míle
  • Middle Irish: míle
    • Irish: míle
    • Manx: milley
    • Scottish Gaelic: mìle
• → Welsh: mil

• Appendix:Latin cardinal numerals

Shortened from Latin mīlle passūs, mīlle passuum (“Roman mile”, literally “a thousand of paces”).

mīlle n (genitive mīlle); third declension

1. mile, particularly a Roman mile of 8 stades (stadia); 1,000 paces (passūs); or 5,000 feet (pedes)

• mīlle passūs
• mīlle passuum

• Italian: miglio
• Old French:
  • French: mille
  • Norman: mille
• Sardinian: miza
• Spanish: milla
• → Ancient Greek: μίλιον (mílion), μείλιον (meílion), μίλιν (mílin)
  • Greek: μίλι (míli)
  • → Hebrew: מַיְל‎‎ (mayl)
  • → Old Armenian: մղոն (młon), միլոն (milon), մողոն (mołon)
    • Armenian: մղոն (młon)
• → Aramaic: [script needed] (mīlā), [script needed] (mīl)
  • Classical Syriac: ܡܝܠܐ‎ (mīlā), ܡܝܠ‎ (mīl)
  • → Arabic: ميل‎ (mīl)
    • → Middle Armenian: միլ (mil)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: مِيل‎ (mīl)
      • Turkish: mil
    • → Persian: مِيل‎ (mīl)
• → Old Irish: míle
  • Middle Irish: míle
    • Irish: míle
    • Manx: milley
    • Scottish Gaelic: mìle

• mille in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mille in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mille in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a mile away: a mille passibus
    
  • to be fined 10,000 asses: decem milibus aeris damnari
    
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag

• mil, mile

From Old French mile, from Latin mīlle (“thousand”) (plural mīlia).

mille (usually invariable, plural milles)

1. thousand

• Mille is usually invariable in phrases like quatre mille (“four thousand”) but the plural milles is attested.

• French: mille
  • → Garifuna: milu (possibly)

• mille on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) (in French). See formes tab for examples of milles

From Old French mile, from Latin mīlle (plural mīlia).

mille

1. (Jersey) thousand

• hèrbe à mille noeuds (“corn spurrey”)
• mille-pids (“millipede”)

Borrowed from English mile.

mille m (plural mille)

1. (Jersey) mile

mille

1. (colloquial) Clipping of miljon.

mille c

1. (colloquial) an amount of money corresponding to one million (of a given currency)

mille

1. thousand