mil

mil llobos

mil vaques


mil

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


mil

miled (plural)
mil (singular unmutated)
vil (mutation-soft singular)
miled (plural unmutated)
viled (mutation-soft plural)

From Middle Breton mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil (compare Cornish mil, 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

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


mil

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


mil

Inherited from Spanish mil (“thousand”).


mil

From Proto-Brythonic *mil, from Latin mīlia. Cognate with Breton and Welsh mil.


mil

miles (plural)
mil (unmutated)
vil (soft)
fil (mixed)
vil (after-th mutation-mixed)

From Middle Cornish mil, myl, from Old Cornish mil, Proto-Brythonic *mil, from Proto-Celtic *mīlom, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₁l- (“small animal””). Cognate with Breton mil, Irish míol, Manx meeyl, Scottish Gaelic mial, and Welsh mil.


mil

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


mil

mil (indefinite nominative singular)
milen (definite nominative singular)
mil (indefinite nominative plural)
milene (definite nominative plural)
mils (genitive indefinite singular)
milens (definite genitive singular)
mils (genitive indefinite plural)
milenes (definite genitive plural)

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


mil

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.

A unit of measurement equal to ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of an inch (25.4 µm), usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic.

A former subdivision (¹⁄₁₀₀₀) of the Maltese lira.

The cheapest shack in this part of the woods would probably set the buyer back at least a couple of mil.

2009, Bob Frey, The DVD Murders, page 39:

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.

2010 September, Galen Gondolfi, "Idea Fun(d)", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 79

(informal, plural "mil") Abbreviation of million.


mil

Borrowed from Latin mīlle. Doublet of mejlo.


mil

Kord tuleb päev, mil tuleb minna.

There will once be a day when we have to go.


mil

Tänaval oli auto, mil olid punased triibud.

There was a car on the street that had red stripes.


mil

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


mil

Iten, preçaron hun rrodisioe dous miilles de carro em noventa maravedis

1474, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 66:

Item, they appraised a water wheel and two wheel centers of a cart in ninety maravedis

central piece of the Galician cart wheel

miles (plural)
bile (alternative)
milde (alternative)
minle (alternative)

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


mil

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


mil

English or American mile, a unit of distance equivalent to about 1.6 km

(historical) mijl, Dutch mile or league, a unit of distance equivalent to about 5–6 km

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


mil

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

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”).


mil

meala (genitive singular)
nominative (indefinite)
mil (indefinite singular)
vocative (indefinite)
a mhil (indefinite singular)
genitive (indefinite)
meala (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an mhil (definite singular)
genitive (definite)
na meala (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an mil (definite singular)
don mhil (definite singular)
mil
mhil

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.


mil

Diezisiete anyos tenia Moshe Aelion kuando fue deportado por los almanes a Auschwitz, djuntos kon su madre i su ermana i los serka de 60 mil djudios de Saloniko.

2000, Aki Yerushalayim, numbers 62–64, page 76:

Moshe Aelion was seventeen years old when he was deported by the Germans to Auschwitz, together with his mother, sister, and around sixty thousand Jews from Salonica.

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


mil

Inherited from French mille (“thousand”).


mil

mt-noun

mil m (dual milejn, plural mjiel or mili)

milejn (dual)
mjiel (plural)
mili (plural)


mil

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.


mil

(today in Norway) a distance of 10 kilometres

gammel norsk mil - old Norwegian mile, a distance of 11.3 kilometres

engelsk mil - a mile, 1.609 kilometres, as used in Britain and the US.

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

mila (definite singular)
milen (definite singular)
mil (indefinite plural)
milene (definite plural)

From Latin milia, millia and Old Norse míla.


mil

gammal norsk mil - old Norwegian mile, a distance of 11.3 kilometres

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


mil

late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
Sardina is þrī and þrītti mīla lang, and twā and twentiġ mīla brād.

Sardinia is thirty-three miles long, and twenty-two miles wide.

mīl (canonical feminine)
mīl (nominative singular)
mīla (nominative plural)
mīle (nominative plural)
mīle (accusative singular)
mīla (accusative plural)
mīle (accusative plural)
mīle (genitive singular)
mīla (genitive plural)
mīle (dative singular)
mīlum (dative plural)

Middle English: myle, mile

Scots: mile

English: mile

Borrowed from Latin mīlia, plural of the numeral mīlle.


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Galician: mil

desctree

Portuguese: mil
→ Kadiwéu: miili
> Papiamentu: mil (inherited)

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


mil

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...

melo (genitive)
mil (nominative singular)
mil (singular vocative)
mil (accusative singular)
melo (genitive singular)
mela (genitive singular)
mil (dative singular)
mil
also mmil after a proclitic
ending in a vowel

Middle Irish: mil

Irish: mil

Scottish Gaelic: mil

Manx: mill

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


mil

Job fue much rich õe e ouo .v. fijos. ⁊ .iij. fijas. ⁊ ouo .mil. ouejas. ⁊ .iij. mil. camellos. ⁊ .d. iugos de bueẏes. ⁊ .v. mil aſnas. ⁊ tẽtol el diablo ⁊ diol pođ nr̃o ſẽnor ſobre quãto auia.

c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 36r.:

Job was a very rich man. And he had five sons and three daughters. And he owned a thousand sheep and three thousand camels and five hundred yoke of oxen and five thousand donkeys. And the Devil tempted him and Our Lord gave him power over all that he had.

Ladino: mil, מיל

Spanish: mil
→ Navajo: mííl
> Papiamentu: mil (inherited)
→ Taos: míl, mílą


mil

Inherited from Portuguese mil and Spanish mil and Kabuverdianu mil.


mil

(somewhat poetic) thousands of (very many)

→ Kadiwéu: miili

> Papiamentu: mil (inherited)

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


mil

Middle Breton: mil

Breton: mil

Old Cornish: mil

Middle Cornish: mil, myl

Cornish: mil

Middle Welsh: mil

Welsh: mil


mil

Middle Breton: mil

Breton: mil

Middle Cornish: mil, myl

Cornish: mil

Middle Welsh: mil

Welsh: mil

Borrowed from Latin mīlia. Cognate with Old Irish míle.


mil

miluri (plural)
mil (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
milul (accusative definite nominative singular)
miluri (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
milurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
mil (indefinite singular)
milului (definite singular)
miluri (indefinite singular)
milurilor (definite plural)
milule (singular vocative)
milurilor (vocative)


mil

head

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

mealach (genitive singular)
meala (genitive singular)
mealan (plural)
mil
mhil

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

sl-adj

mȋl (comparative milȇjši, superlative nȁjmilȇjši)

mȋl (canonical)
milȇjši (comparative)
nȁjmilȇjši (superlative)
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míl (masculine nominative singular)
míli (masculine nominative singular)
míla (feminine nominative singular)
mílo (neuter nominative singular)
mílega (genitive masculine singular)
míle (feminine genitive singular)
mílega (genitive neuter singular)
mílemu (dative masculine singular)
míli (dative feminine singular)
mílemu (dative neuter singular)
nominativeⁱⁿᵃⁿ or (accusative masculine singular)
genitive (accusative masculine singular)
mílo (accusative feminine singular)
mílo (accusative neuter singular)
mílem (locative masculine singular)
míli (feminine locative singular)
mílem (locative neuter singular)
mílim (instrumental masculine singular)
mílo (feminine instrumental singular)
mílim (instrumental neuter singular)
míla (dual masculine nominative)
míli (dual feminine nominative)
míli (dual neuter nominative)
mílih (dual genitive masculine)
mílih (dual feminine genitive)
mílih (dual genitive neuter)
mílima (dative dual masculine)
mílima (dative dual feminine)
mílima (dative dual neuter)
míla (accusative dual masculine)
míli (accusative dual feminine)
míli (accusative dual neuter)
mílih (dual locative masculine)
mílih (dual feminine locative)
mílih (dual locative neuter)
mílima (dual instrumental masculine)
mílima (dual feminine instrumental)
mílima (dual instrumental neuter)
míli (masculine nominative plural)
míle (feminine nominative plural)
míla (neuter nominative plural)
mílih (genitive masculine plural)
mílih (feminine genitive plural)
mílih (genitive neuter plural)
mílim (dative masculine plural)
mílim (dative feminine plural)
mílim (dative neuter plural)
míle (accusative masculine plural)
míle (accusative feminine plural)
míla (accusative neuter plural)
mílih (locative masculine plural)
mílih (feminine locative plural)
mílih (locative neuter plural)
mílimi (instrumental masculine plural)
mílimi (feminine instrumental plural)
mílimi (instrumental neuter plural)

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


mil

→ Navajo: mííl

> Papiamentu: mil (inherited)

→ Taos: míl, mílą

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


mil

Gané muchos miles de dólares.

(chiefly in the plural) thousand (1000 units of something) (usually in an indefinite sense)


mil

IRAP rekommenderar nu bland annat Indien och Mexiko att bygga 2+1-vägar och tar som exempel att 93.000 liv skulle kunna räddas på 20 år i Indien om 1.750 mil mötesväg gjordes om till 2+1-väg.

2020 February 19, Maria Dahlin, “Sverige prisas för 2+1-väg [Sweden is praised for 2+1 road]”, in Vi bilägare:

IRAP is now recommending countries like India and Mexico to build 2+1 roads and cites an example that 93,000 lives could be saved over 20 years in India if 17,500 kilometres of two-way roads were converted to 2+1 roads.

Genom att våga pusha sig själv har Humam lyckats springa tio mil på tiden 13 timmar och 28 minuter.

2024 August 30, Tindra Näsström, “Humam i Härnösand gick från otränad till att springa tio mil: ”Ville kliva ur min bekväma bubbla” [Humam in Härnösand went from untrained to running ten miles [100 km/62 mi]: "Wanted to step out of my comfort bubble"]”, in SVT Nyheter:

By daring to push himself, Humam has managed to run ten miles [100 km/62 mi] in 13 hours and 28 minutes.

Böda/Högby är vana att jobba över stora ytor och den klassiska minibussen har förmodligen gått miljontals mil de senaste decennierna.

2025 January 29, Kalle Hultenius, “Ölands fotbolls-vagabonder – åtta mil hemifrån [Öland’s football vagabonds – eight miles [80 km/50 mi] from home]”, in Ölandsbladet:

Böda/Högby are used to covering vast distances, and their classic minibus has probably clocked up millions of miles over the past few decades.

(after 1889) Unit of length, equal to 10,000 meters

För att kunna åtkomma dylikt, wäl rätt artigt men föga räntegifwande kram, beslöt han, att, med en särdeles wäl försedd kaßa, resa till Danmarks hufwudstad, ungefär trettio mil aflägsen från deß födelseort Götheborg.

1831, Fredrik Cederborgh, Berättelse om […] John Hall, page 5:

In order to be able to access such, indeed quite polite but hardly interest bearing hug, he decided, with a particularly well-stocked purse, to travel to Denmark's capital city, about thirty miles distant from their birthplace, Gothenburg.

(between 1699 and 1889) Unit of length, equal to 18,000 ells or 10,688.54 meters

(before 1699) Unit of length, with varying measurements depending on time period and region.

mil (indefinite nominative singular)
mils (genitive indefinite singular)
milen (definite nominative singular)
milens (definite genitive singular)
mil (indefinite nominative plural)
mils (genitive indefinite plural)
milen (definite nominative plural)
milens (definite genitive plural)

engelsk mil

mile (in the English sense), international mile

Borrowed through Low German, from Latin mil(l)ia (passum) "thousand (steps)." First attested in the latter half of the 14th century.


mil

Borrowed from Spanish mil, from Latin mīlle.


mil

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

mil (nominative)
milnıñ (genitive)
milga (dative)
milnı (accusative)
milda (locative)
mildan (ablative)


mil

head

mil (definite accusative mili, plural miller)

mili (accusative definite)
miller (plural)


mil

One thousand vatu (currency of Vanuatu).

Borrowed from French mille, from Latin mīlle.


mil

vermin (animal not normally eaten by people)

carfil

working beast, dray horse, clumsy animal, monster

From Middle Welsh mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil (compare Cornish mil, 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

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