mille

See also: Mille

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ilːe

Pronoun

mille

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

French

Etymology

From Middle French mille, from Old French mile, from Latin mīlle (“thousand”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mil/
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  • Rhymes: -il

Numeral

mille

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

Noun

mille m (plural mille)

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

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Garifuna: milu (possibly)

See also

Further reading

Italian

Italian cardinal numbers
 <  999 1000 1001  > 
    Cardinal : mille
    Ordinal : millesimo

Etymology

From Latin mīlle.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

mille m, f (invariable, plural mila)

  1. thousand
Italian cardinal numbers
 <  102 103 104  > 
    Cardinal : mille

Noun

mille m (plural mille)

  1. (cardinal) thousand

Derived terms

See also

  • Appendix:Italian numbers
  • chilo-

Latin

Latin cardinal numbers
 <  CMXCIX M MI  > 
    Cardinal : mīlle
    Ordinal : mīllēsimus
    Adverbial : mīlliēns
    Distributive : mīllenī
Latin Wikipedia article on mīlle

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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).

Alternative forms

  • Symbol: M or ↀ

Adjective

mīlle (genitive mīlle); third declension

  1. innumerable, a vast number

Numeral

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

  1. (cardinal) 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.
Usage notes

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

Inflection
Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem./Neuter Masc./Fem./Neuter
nominative mīlle mīlia, mīllia
genitive mīlium, mīllium
dative mīlibus, mīllibus
accusative mīlia, mīllia
ablative mīlibus, mīllibus
vocative mīlia, mīllia
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
  • Appendix:Latin cardinal numerals

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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)
Synonyms
Descendants
  • Italian: miglio
  • Old French:
  • 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)
  • → Aramaic: [script needed] (mīlā), [script needed] (mīl)
    • Classical Syriac: ܡܝܠܐ‎ (mīlā), ܡܝܠ‎ (mīl)
    • → Arabic: ميل‎ (mīl)
      • → Middle Armenian: միլ (mil)
      • → Ottoman Turkish: مِيل‎ (mīl)
      • → Persian: مِيل‎ (mīl)
  • → Old Irish: míle

References

  1. ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “mīlle”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 379-380
  • 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

Middle French

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Numeral

mille (usually invariable, plural milles)

  1. thousand

Usage notes

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

Descendants

References

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

Norman

Norman cardinal numbers
 <  999 1000 1001  > 
    Cardinal : mille

Etymology 1

From Latin mīlle.

Numeral

mille

  1. (Jersey) thousand
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English mile.

Noun

mille m (plural mille)

  1. (Jersey) mile

Swedish

Numeral

mille

  1. (colloquial, cardinal) Clipping of miljon.

Noun

mille c

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

Tarantino

Numeral

mille

  1. (cardinal) thousand
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