milium

English

Noun

milium (plural milia)

1. (dermatology) A keratin-filled cyst that can appear just under the epidermis or on the roof of the mouth.

Synonyms

• milk spot
• oil seed

Further reading

• Milium (disease) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”), see also Ancient Greek μελίνη (melínē, “millet”) and Lithuanian málnos (“millet”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.li.um/, [ˈmɪlʲiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.li.um/, [ˈmiːlium]

milia in agrō (millet in the field)

Noun

milium n (genitive miliī or milī); second declension

1. millet

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	milium	milia
Genitive	miliī milī1	miliōrum
Dative	miliō	miliīs
Accusative	milium	milia
Ablative	miliō	miliīs
Vocative	milium	milia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• miliaceus
• miliacus
• mīliginis

Descendants

• Albanian: mel
• Aromanian: melj, meljiu
• Asturian: millu
• Catalan: mill
• Dalmatian: mail
• English: millet (via French); malagueta (via Portuguese)
• French: millet, mil; maniguette (via Portuguese)
• Friulian: mei
• Galician: millo

• Italian: miglio
• Occitan: melh, milhet
• Old Galician-Portuguese: millo
• Portuguese: milho; malagueta
• Romanian: mei
• Spanish: mijo
• Translingual:
• Venetian: méjo
• Walloon: milet

Etymology 2

Inflected form of mīlle (“thousand”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmiː.li.um/, [ˈmiːlʲiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.li.um/, [ˈmiːlium]

Numeral

1. genitive plural of mīlle

Usage notes

See Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

References

• “milium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “milium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• milium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.