mil - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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

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 (25.4 µm), 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.

5. (informal) Clipping of milliliter; mL.

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

mil (not comparable)

1. Clipping of military.

• mil-spec

• ILM, -lim-, lim, MLI, Lim

Akin to Spanish mil, from Latin mīlle.

mil

1. thousand

From Latin mīlle.

mil (indeclinable)

1. one thousand; 1000

   mil llobos ― one thousand wolves

   mil vaques ― one thousand cows

In compound numbers, mil does not inflect or change:

• mil dos ― one thousand two
• mil trenta y nueve ― one thousand thirty-nine
• tres mil ― three thousand
• venti mil ― twenty thousand

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiːl/

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

mil

1. thousand

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

mil m (plural miled)

1. (rare) animal

   Synonyms: aneval, loen

g=m

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmil]
• Rhymes: -il

mil m or f

1. (cardinal number) thousand

mil m (plural mils)

1. thousand

• “mil” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mil”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “mil” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mil” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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

• Hyphenation: mil

mil

1. thousand

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mil.

Inherited from Spanish mil (“thousand”).

mil

1. thousand

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

mil m

1. honey

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

• Rhymes: -iːl

mil

1. mile, unit of length of varying value

Borrowed from Latin mīlle. Doublet of mejlo.

• IPA^(key): [mil]
• Hyphenation: mil

mil

1. thousand

• IPA^(key): /ˈmil/, [ˈmil]
• Hyphenation: mil

Clipping of millal.

mil

1. when

   Kord tuleb päev, mil tuleb minna.

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

Clipping of millel.

mil (not comparable)

1. that

   Tänaval oli auto, mil olid punased triibud.

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

From Latin milium.

• IPA^(key): /mil/, /mij/

mil m (plural mils)

1. (now dialectal) millet

   Synonym: millet

• “mil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin mīlle.

mil

1. thousand

• IPA^(key): /ˈmil/ [ˈmiɫ]
• Rhymes: -il
• Hyphenation: mil

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

mil (indeclinable)

1. one thousand; 1000

1474. From Vulgar Latin *medianile, from Latin mediānus. Compare the cognates mión and molo.^[1]

• bile, milde, minle

mil m (plural miles)

1. central piece of the Galician cart wheel

   Synonyms: mión, miúl, molo

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

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

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mil”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “miil”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• “mil” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), chapter MIL, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), chapter MIL, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), chapter MIL, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

mil

1. eye

• IPA^(key): /mil/

mil

1. thousand
2. mile (measure of distance)

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

• IPA^(key): /mil/

mil

1. thousand

Borrowed from Spanish mil.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmil/ [ˈmil]
• Hyphenation: mil

mil

1. thousand

   Synonym: ribo

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪl/
• Hyphenation: mil
• Rhymes: -mɪl, -ɪl, -l

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

mil (plural mil-mil, first-person possessive milku, second-person possessive milmu, third-person possessive milnya)

1. English or American mile, a unit of distance equivalent to about 1.6 km
2. (historical) mijl, Dutch mile or league, a unit of distance equivalent to about 5–6 km
3. milepost, milestone, km marker

   Synonyms: batu, pal, tonggak

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 (plural mil-mil, first-person possessive milku, second-person possessive milmu, third-person possessive milnya)

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

• “mil” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Old Irish mil,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognate with Latin mel, Ancient Greek μέλι (méli). Akin to milis and blas.

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /mʲɪlʲ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /mʲɨ̞lʲ/^[2]

mil f (genitive singular meala)

1. honey

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “mil”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “mil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “mil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

From Portuguese mil.

mil

1. thousand (1000)

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

mil f (uncountable)

1. honey

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1159: “il miele” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Inherited from French mille (“thousand”).

• IPA^(key): /mil/
• Rhymes: -il

mil

1. thousand

mil

1. you (plural)

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

From Arabic مِيل (mīl).

• IPA^(key): /miːl/

mil m (dual milejn, plural mjiel or mili)

1. mile

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 f

1. mill

• “mil” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

mil

1. (anatomy) eye

mil ?

1. arm
2. shoulder
3. neck

From Latin milia, millia and Old Norse míla.

mil m or 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.

• nautisk mil
• sjømil

• “mil” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin milia, millia and Old Norse míla.

mil 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.

Indefinite plural miler was made non-standard by the spelling reform of 2012.

• nautisk mil
• sjømil

• “mil” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• mila

From Latin mīlle.

mil

1. thousand

• milen
• milion

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[2], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 648.

Borrowed from Latin mīlia, plural of the numeral mīlle.

• IPA^(key): /miːl/

mīl f

1. mile
   • 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.

• Middle English: myle, mile
  • Scots: mile
  • English: mile

mil

1. Alternative form of mile (“thousand”)

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

mil f (genitive melo)

1. honey
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 7^d9

     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...

• Middle Irish: mil
  • Irish: mil
  • Scottish Gaelic: mil
  • Manx: mill

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Spanish mil and Portuguese mil and Kabuverdianu mil.

mil

1. thousand (1000)

Compare Classical Nahuatl milpan.

mil

1. cornfield

• Campbell, L. (1985). The Pipil Language of El Salvador. Mouton De Gruyter.
• Lara-Martínez, R., McCallister, R. Glosario cultural náwat pipil y nicarao.

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

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -il, (Brazil) -iw
• Hyphenation: mil

mil m or f

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

   Synonyms: milhares de, um milhão de

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mil.

• milhar

• → Kadiwéu: miili

mil n (plural miluri)

1. Obsolete form of milă.

• mil in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

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).

• IPA^(key): /mil/, /mʲil/

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

1. honey

• mìlseachd
• mìlse
• milis
• meilc

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “mil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[3], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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

• IPA^(key): /míːl/

mȋl (comparative milȇjši, superlative nȁjmilȇjši)

1. kind
2. dear

• “mil”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmil/ [ˈmil]
• Rhymes: -il
• Syllabification: mil

mil

1. thousand

• When pluralized as a specific number, the form mil is still used:

  dos mil pesos ― two thousand pesos

  cien mil pesos ― one hundred thousand pesos

• → Navajo: mííl
• → Taos: míl, mílą

mil m (plural miles)

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

   Gané muchos miles de dólares.

   I earned many thousands of dollars

• “mil”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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

• IPA^(key): /miːl/

mil c

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

   Synonyms: nymil, myriameter

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

     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.

     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.

     (literally, “1,750 miles”)

2. (between 1699 and 1889) Unit of length, equal to 10,688.54 meters

   Synonym: landmil

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

     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.

     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.

• engelsk mil (“mile (in the English sense), international mile”)
• milsvid
• sjumilaskog
• sjumilastövel
• sjömil

• fjärdingsväg
• kilometer

• mil in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mil in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mil in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• lim

Borrowed from Spanish mil, from Latin mīlle.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmil/ [ˈmil]
• Rhymes: -il
• Syllabification: mil

mil (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜎ᜔)

1. thousand

   Synonym: libo

• “mil”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• Lim

mil

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmil/

mil (definite accusative mili, plural miller)

1. mile (measure of length)

mil

1. thousand

Borrowed from French mille, from Latin mīlle.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /mil/

mil

1. One thousand vatu (currency of Vanuatu).

• IPA^(key): /miːl/
• Rhymes: -ɨːl
• Homophone: mul (South Wales)

From Middle Welsh mil, 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 (mall, “livestock”), Dutch maal (“calf”).

mil m (plural milod)

1. animal, beast, creature
2. vermin (animal not normally eaten by people)

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

mil f (plural miloedd)

1. (cardinal number) one thousand

• mil blynyddoedd (“millennium”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), chapter MIL, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

• mill

mil

1. (anatomy) eye

mil

1. eye

• State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Yugara Everyday Words.

mil

1. to run