mille

See also: Mille

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French mille, from Latin mīlle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil/, /ˈmi.lə/
• Hyphenation: mil‧le

Noun

mille n (uncountable)

1. grand (sum of the value of 1,000 monetary units)

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ilːe

Pronoun

mille

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

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French

Etymology

From Middle French mille, from Old French mile, from Latin mīlle (“thousand”) (plural mīlia), from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one 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 milles)

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

Derived terms

• mille anglais
• millefeuille
• mille marin
• mille nautique

 

Related terms

• millénaire
• millénium
• milli-
• millième
• millier
• million

 

Descendants

• → Garifuna: milu (possibly)

See also

• kilo-

Further reading

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

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Italian

Italian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : mille     Ordinal : millesimo

Etymology

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

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

• millefiori
• millefoglie
• millepiedi
• Milleporini
• millerighe
• millesimo

 

Related terms

• grazie mille
• milione
• millanta
• millenario
• millenne
• millennio
• millesimale
• millesimato
• milli-

 

See also

• Appendix:Italian numbers
• chilo-

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Latin

Latin cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : mīlle     Ordinal : mīllēsimus     Adverbial : mīlliēns     Distributive : mīllenī
Latin Wikipedia article on mīlle

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːl.le/, [ˈmiːl.lɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmil.le/

• Audio (Classical)

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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”. 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 neuter noun of the third declension. See Appendix:Latin cardinal numerals for additional information.

Inflection

Number	Singular		Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem./Neut.		Masc./Fem./Neut.
Nominative	mīlle		mīlia, mīllia
Genitive			mīlium, mīllium
Dative			mīlibus, mīllibus
Accusative			mīlia, mīllia
Ablative			mīlibus, mīllibus
Vocative			mīlia, mīllia

Derived terms

• mīlle passūs
• mīlle passuum

Related terms

• mīlliārium
• mīlliārius
• mīllēnārius

Descendants

• Aromanian: njilje
• Dalmatian: mel
• Friulian: mil
• Italian: mille
  • ⇒ Italian: milione (see there for further descendants)
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: mil
• Old French: mile, mil
  • Middle French: mille, mil, mile
    • French: mille
      • → Garifuna: milu (possibly)
  • Norman: mille (Jersey)
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: mil
  • Mirandese: mil
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: mil
  • Occitan: mila, mil
• Old Portuguese: mil
  • Galician: mil
  • Portuguese: mil
    • → Kadiwéu: miili
• Old Spanish: mil, mill,
  • Spanish: mil
    • → Navajo: mííl
    • → Taos: míl, mílą
• Romanian: mie
• Romansch: milli
• Sardinian: mila, milli
• Sicilian: milli, middi
• → Albanian: mijë
• → Basque: mila
• → Breton: mil
• → Germanic: *mīlijō (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Irish: míle
  • Middle Irish: míle
    • Irish: míle
    • Manx: milley
    • Scottish Gaelic: mìle
• → Welsh: mil

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

• mīlle passūs
• mīlle passuum

Descendants

• Italian: miglio
• Old French:
  • French: mille
  • Norman: mille
• 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)
    • Armenian: մղոն (młon)
• → Aramaic: [script needed] (mīlā), [script needed] (mīl)
  • Classical Syriac: ܡܝܠܐ‎ (mīlā), ܡܝܠ‎ (mīl)
  • → Arabic: ميل‎ (mīl)
    • → Middle Armenian: միլ (mil)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: مِيل‎ (mīl)
      • Turkish: mil
    • → Persian: مِيل‎ (mīl)
• → Old Irish: míle
  • Middle Irish: míle
    • Irish: míle
    • Manx: milley
    • Scottish Gaelic: mìle

References

• 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

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Middle French

Alternative forms

• mil, mile

Etymology

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

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

• French: mille
  • → Garifuna: milu (possibly)

References

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

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Norman

Norman cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : mille

Etymology 1

From Old French mile, from Latin mīlle (plural mīlia).

Numeral

mille

1. (Jersey) thousand

Derived terms

• hèrbe à mille noeuds (“corn spurrey”)
• mille-pids (“millipede”)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English mile.

Noun

mille m (plural mille)

1. (Jersey) mile

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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)

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Tarantino

Numeral

mille

1. (cardinal) thousand