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See also: Appendix:Variations of "mil"
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Translingual
Symbol
mil
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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Ultimately from Latin millesimum. The clippings come by way of the clipped words (e.g., millilitre, millimetre, milliradian).
Noun
mil (plural mils)
- 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.
- A unit of measurement equal to 1⁄1000 of an inch (25.4 µm), usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic.
- A former subdivision (1⁄1000) of the Maltese lira.
- (informal) Clipping of milliliter
- (informal) Clipping of millimeter
- Alternative form: mill
- Synonym: mm
- For this task, I prefer the plastic bars that are 10 mils in diameter.
- 2025, Gupi, “kutna hora”, performed by Food House:
- Party like it's 2024, hear a knocking at my door / It's the police let them in, bust a 9 mil through their skin
- (informal) Clipping of milliradian
- A dot in a mil-dot reticle represents one mil, which corresponds to a few inches at 100 yards.
Derived terms
Translations
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Etymology 2
Noun
mil (plural mil)
- (informal) Clipping of million
- Word has it that they were offered a cool ten mil to sell their farm to the land developers.
- 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.
Etymology 3
Adjective
mil (not comparable)
Derived terms
Related terms
Anagrams
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Aragonese
Etymology
Numeral
mil
Asturian
< 999 | 1000 | 1001 > |
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Cardinal : mil Ordinal : milésimu | ||
Etymology
Numeral
mil (indeclinable)
Usage notes
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
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Breton
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Breton mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil, from Latin mīlia. Cognate with Cornish mil, Welsh mil, Irish míle.
Numeral
mil
Etymology 2
From Middle Breton mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil (compare Cornish mil, 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”), Dutch maal (“calf”).
Noun
mil m (plural miled)
Mutation
The template Template:br-noun-mutation does not use the parameter(s):g=mPlease see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.
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Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Old Catalan mil, from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”).
Pronunciation
Numeral
mil m or f
Noun
mil m (plural mils)
Further reading
- “mil”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “mil”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “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.
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Cebuano
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish mil, from Old Spanish mil, mill, from Latin mīlle.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: mil
Numeral
mil
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:mil.
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Chavacano
Etymology
Numeral
mil
Cornish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Brythonic *mil, from Latin mīlia. Cognate with Breton and Welsh mil.
Numeral
mil
Noun
mil f (plural milyow)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle Cornish mil, myl, from Old Cornish mil, Proto-Brythonic *mil, from Proto-Celtic *mīlom, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₁l- (“small animal””). Cognate with Breton mil, Irish míol, Manx meeyl, Scottish Gaelic mial, and Welsh mil.
Noun
mil m (plural miles)
Derived terms
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Dalmatian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.
Noun
mil m
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed through Low German, from Latin mil(l)ia (passum) "thousand (steps)."
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iːl
Noun
mil
Declension
Derived terms
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Esperanto
Etymology
Pronunciation
Numeral
mil
Estonian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Conjunction
mil
- when
- Kord tuleb päev, mil tuleb minna.
- There will once be a day when we have to go.
Etymology 2
Adverb
mil (not comparable)
- that
- Tänaval oli auto, mil olid punased triibud.
- There was a car on the street that had red stripes.
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
mil m (plural mils)
Further reading
- “mil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Friulian
Etymology
Numeral
mil
Galician
Gamilaraay
Haitian Creole
Ido
Ilocano
Indonesian
Irish
Kabuverdianu
Ladin
Ladino
Louisiana Creole
Lule
Maltese
Mòcheno
Ngiyambaa
Northern Kurdish
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Occitan
Old English
Old French
Old Galician-Portuguese
Old Irish
Old Spanish
Papiamentu
Pipil
Portuguese
Romanian
Scottish Gaelic
Slovene
Spanish
Swedish
Tagalog
Tatar
Turkish
Volapük
Vurës
Welsh
Wiradjuri
Yagara
Yapese
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