mil

• IPA^(key): /mɪl/
• Rhymes: -ɪl
• Homophone: mill

mil (plural mils)

1. An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to ¹⁄₆₄₀₀ of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also ¹⁄₆₀₀₀ and ¹⁄₆₃₀₀ are used in other countries.
2. A unit of measurement equal to ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of an inch, usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic.
3. a former subdivision (1/1000) 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.

• degree, deg
• radian, rad
• grad
• second
• minute
• for abbreviation, see mil.
• mil-dot

• -lim-, ILM, Lim, MLI

From Latin mīlle.

mil (indeclinable)

1. one thousand; 1000

   mil llobos ― one thousand wolves

   mil vaques ― one thousand cows

In compound numbers, mil does not inflect or change:

• mil dos ― one thousand two
• mil trenta y nueve ― one thousand thirty-nine
• tres mil ― three thousand
• venti mil ― twenty thousand

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiːl/

From Latin mīlia.

mil

1. thousand

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”).

mil ? (plural miled)

1. (rare) animal

• aneval
• loen

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”).

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmil/
• Rhymes: -il

mil m or f

1. thousand

mil m (plural mils)

1. thousand

• “mil” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mil” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “mil” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mil” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Spanish mil, from Old Spanish mil, mill, from Latin mīlle.

• Hyphenation: mil

mil

1. thousand

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:mil.

Borrowed from Spanish mil (“thousand”).

mil

1. thousand

From Latin mel.

mil m

1. honey

• Rhymes: -iːl

mil

1. mile, unit of length of varying value

Borrowed from Latin mille.

• IPA^(key): /mil/

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mil

1. thousand

mil

1. Clipping of millal.
2. when

   Kord tuleb päev, mil tuleb minna.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

mil

1. Clipping of millel.
2. what

   Tänaval oli auto, mil olid punased triibud.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

From Latin milium, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”).

• IPA^(key): /mil/, /mij/

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mil m (plural mils)

1. (now dialectal) millet

• millet

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

From Latin mīlle.

mil

1. thousand

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmil/

mil (indeclinable)

1. one thousand; 1000

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

• bile, milde, minle

• IPA^(key): /ˈmil/

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

• “mil” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “miil” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “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.

mil

1. eye

From Esperanto mil, from French mille, Italian mille, Spanish mil, from Latin mīlle.

• IPA^(key): /mil/

mil

1. thousand.

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.

• IPA^(key): /mʲɪlʲ/

mil f (genitive singular meala)

1. honey

• "mil" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Alexander MacBain, Eneas Mackay, 1911

• “mil” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

From Portuguese mil.

mil

1. thousand (1000)

mil ?

1. arm
2. shoulder
3. neck

From Latin mel, mellis.

mil ? (plural [please provide])

1. honey

mil

1. you (plural)

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

mil

1. (anatomy) eye

From Latin milia, millia and Old Norse míla

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.

• nautisk mil
• sjømil

• “mil” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin milia, millia and Old Norse míla

mil m or 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.

• nautisk mil
• sjømil

• “mil” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

mil

1. (a) thousand

• mila

From Latin mīlle.

mil

1. thousand

• milen
• milion

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

Borrowed from Latin mīlia, plural of the numeral mīlle.

• IPA^(key): /miːl/

mīl f

1. mile

• Middle English: myle, mile
  • Scots: mile
  • English: mile

mil

1. Alternative form of mile (“thousand”)

From Spanish mil and Portuguese mil and Kabuverdianu mil.

mil

1. thousand (1000)

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmiɫ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmiw/

mil m or f

1. one thousand; a thousand; 1000
2. (somewhat poetic) thousands of (very many)

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:mil.

• (very many): milhares de, um milhão de

• milhar

• → Kadiwéu: miili

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).

mil f (genitive singular mealach)

1. honey

• mìlseachd

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• “mil” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmíːl/
• Tonal orthography: mȋl

míl (comparative milêjši, superlative nàjmilêjši)

1. kind
2. dear

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmil/
• Rhymes: -il

mil (plural miles)

1. thousand

• In definite numbers, the plural miles is never used:

dos mil pesos – "two thousand pesos" ($2,000)

cien mil pesos – "a hundred thousand pesos" ($100,000)

• Miles is only used in the indefinite sense:

miles de pesos – "thousands of pesos"

• millar
• milenio

• → Navajo: mííl
• → Taos: míl, mílą

• IPA^(key): /miːl/

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mil c

1. (After 1889) Unit of length, equal to 10,000 meters
2. (Between 1699 and 1889) Unit of length, equal to 10,688.54 meters.

• nymil (1)
• myriameter (1)
• landmil (2)

mil

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmil/

mil (definite accusative mili, plural miller)

1. mile (measure of length)

mil

1. thousand

• IPA^(key): /miːl/

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”).

mil m (plural milod)

1. animal, beast, creature
2. animal not usually consumed by man

• carfil m (“working beast, dray horse, clumsy animal, monster”)
• milyn (diminutive)

From Latin mīlle.

mil f (plural miloedd)

1. thousand

• mil blynyddoedd (“millennium”)

• Angharad Fychan and Ann Parry Owen, editors (2014), chapter MIL, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

• mill

mil

1. (anatomy) eye

mil

1. to run