mil

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

See also

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

Anagrams

• -lim-, ILM, Lim, MLI

Etymology

From Latin mīlle.

Numeral

mil (indeclinable)

1. (cardinal) one thousand; 1000

   mil llobos ― one thousand wolves

   mil vaques ― one thousand cows

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiːl/

Etymology 1

From Latin mīlia.

Etymology 2

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 (māł, “livestock”), Dutch maal (“calf”).

Etymology

From Latin mīlle.

Pronunciation

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

Numeral

mil m, f

1. (cardinal) thousand

Noun

mil m (plural mils)

1. thousand

Etymology

From Spanish mil (“thousand”).

Numeral

mil

1. (cardinal) thousand

Etymology

From Latin mel.

Noun

mil m

1. honey

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːl

Noun

mil

1. mile, unit of length of varying value

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mille.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Numeral

mil

1. (cardinal) thousand

Conjunction

mil

1. Clipping of millal.
2. when

   Kord tuleb päev, mil tuleb minna.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Adverb

mil

1. Clipping of millel.
2. what

   Tänaval oli auto, mil olid punased triibud.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Etymology

From Latin milium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil/, /mij/

Noun

mil m (plural mils)

1. (now dialectal) millet

Further reading

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

Etymology

From Latin mīlle.

Numeral

mil

1. (cardinal) thousand

Etymology

From Latin mīlle.

Numeral

mil (indeclinable)

1. (cardinal) one thousand; 1000

Noun

mil

1. eye

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil/

Numeral

mil

1. (cardinal) thousand.

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʲɪlʲ/

Noun

mil f (genitive singular meala)

1. honey

Mutation

References

• "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.

Noun

mil ?

1. shoulder
2. neck

Etymology

From Latin mel, mellis.

Noun

mil ? (plural [please provide])

1. honey

Pronoun

mil

1. you (plural)

References

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

Noun

mil

1. (anatomy) eye

Etymology

From Latin milia, millia and Old Norse míla

Noun

mil m, 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.

References

• “mil” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

From Latin milia, millia and Old Norse míla

Noun

mil m, 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.

References

• “mil” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Numeral

mil

1. (cardinal) (a) thousand

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mīlia, plural of the numeral mīlle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːl/

Noun

mīl f

1. mile

Numeral

mil

1. Alternative form of mile (“thousand”)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese mil, from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Indo-European *(sm̥-)ǵʰéslo-.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

mil m, f

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

Etymology

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).

Noun

mil f (genitive singular mealach)

1. honey

Mutation

References

• 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.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

míl (comparative milêjši, superlative nàjmilêjši)

1. kind
2. dear

Etymology

From Old Spanish mil, mill, from Latin mīlle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmil/
• Rhymes: -il

Numeral

mil (plural miles)

1. (cardinal) thousand

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːl/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

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.

Noun

mil

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmil/

Noun

mil (definite accusative mili, plural miller)

1. mile (measure of length)

Numeral

mil

1. (cardinal) thousand

Etymology 1

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 (māł, “livestock”), Dutch maal (“calf”).

Etymology 2

From Latin mīlle.

Mutation

References

• “mil”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, 2014

Alternative forms

• mill

Noun

mil

1. (anatomy) eye

Verb

mil

1. to run