mil

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Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Mixtec, Peñoles or Spanish mixteco, Peñoles.

Symbol

mil

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Peñoles Mixtec.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Peñoles Mixtec terms

English

English Wikipedia has articles on:

angular mil and thousandth of an inch

Wikipedia Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪl/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪl
• Homophone: mill

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Latin millesimum. The clippings come by way of the clipped words (e.g., millilitre, millimetre, milliradian).

Noun

mil (plural mils)

2. 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.
4. A unit of measurement equal to ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of an inch (25.4 µm), usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic.

   Alternative form: mill

   Synonym: thou

   For this task, I prefer the plastic sheeting that is 10 mils thick.

   • 2013, “ORDINANCE NO. 2422”, in City of Davis‎, archived from the original on 1 April 2014, page 4:

     If made of plastic, is minimum of at least 2.25 mils (thousandths of an inch) thick.

6. A former subdivision (¹⁄₁₀₀₀) of the Maltese lira.
8. (informal) Clipping of milliliter.

   Synonyms: mL, ml, cm³, cc

   We told her to give her daughter ten mils of cough syrup and to call us back if the cough gets worse.

10. (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

12. (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

• circular mil
• mil-dot
• per mil

Translations

angular mil

Finnish: piiru (fi) (1⁄6000) French: millième (fr) m German: Strich (de) m, artillerischer Strich m Russian: мил (ru) m (mil) (1⁄6000)

See also

• degree, deg
• grad
• mil.
• minute
• radian, rad
• second

Etymology 2

Clipping of million.

Noun

mil (plural mil)

2. (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

Clipping of military.

Adjective

mil (not comparable)

2. Clipping of military

Derived terms

• mil-spec

Related terms

• milblog
• milblogger

Anagrams

• ILM, -lim-, lim, MLI, Lim

Aragonese

Etymology

Akin to Spanish mil, from Latin mīlle.

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Asturian

Asturian cardinal numbers

<  999	1000	1001  >
Cardinal : mil     Ordinal : milésimu

Etymology

Inherited from Latin mīlle.

Numeral

mil (indeclinable)

1. one thousand; 1000

   mil llobos ― one thousand wolves

   mil vaques ― one thousand cows

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

Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiːl/

Etymology 1

Breton numbers ^(edit)

←  100	←  200	1,000	1,000,000 (106)  →	1,000,000,000 (109)  →
		100
Cardinal: mil     Ordinal: milvet     Ordinal abbreviation: 1000vet

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

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

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)

1. (rare) animal

   Synonyms: aneval, loen

Mutation

Mutation of mil

	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard
singular	mil	vil	unchanged	unchanged
plural	miled	viled	unchanged	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Breton.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Catalan

Catalan numbers ^(edit)

←  100	←  900	1,000	1,000,000 (106)  →
		100
Cardinal: mil     Ordinal (Central): milè     Ordinal (Valencian): milé     Ordinal: mil·lèsim
Catalan Wikipedia article on 1,000

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -il

Numeral

mil m or f

1. (cardinal number) thousand

Noun

mil m (plural mils)

1. thousand

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.

Cebuano

Cebuano numbers ^(edit)

		10,000
[a], [b], [c] ←  100	←  900	1,000	2,000  →	10,000  →
		100[a], [b], [c]
Cardinal: usá ka libo, libo     Spanish cardinal: mil

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mil

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish mil (“thousand”).

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Cornish

Cornish numbers ^(edit)

[a], [b], [c] ←  1	←  100	1000 1,000	1,000,000 (106)  → [a], [b]	1,000,000,000 (109)  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: mil     Ordinal: milves     Ordinal abbreviation: 1000ves     Adverbial: milweyth     Multiplier: milblek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *mil, from Latin mīlia. Cognate with Breton and Welsh mil.

Numeral

mil

1. one thousand

Noun

mil f (plural milyow)

1. thousand

Derived terms

• milblek (“thousandfold”)
• mildros (“millipede”)
• milves (“thousandth”)
• milvil (“million”)
• milvledhen (“millennium”)
• milweyth (“thousandfold”)

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)

1. animal

Derived terms

• bronnvil (“mammal”)
• euthvil (“monster”)
• knivil (“rodent”)
• kramvil (“reptile”)
• milonieth (“zoology”)
• milus (“brutal”)
• milva (“zoo”)
• milvedhek (“vet”)
• morvil (“whale”)

Mutation

Mutation of mil

unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
mil	vil	unchanged	unchanged	fil	vil

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

1. honey

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

mil

Wikipedia ^da

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːl

Noun

mil

1. mile, unit of length of varying value

Declension

Declension of mil

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mil	milen	mil	milene
genitive	mils	milens	mils	milenes

Derived terms

• nautisk mil
• sømil

Esperanto

Esperanto numbers ^(edit)

←  100	←  900	1,000
		100
Cardinal: mil     Ordinal: mila     Adverbial: mile     Multiplier: milobla, milopa     Fractional: milona, milono

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mīlle. Doublet of mejlo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil/

• Audio:

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• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -il
• Hyphenation: mil

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Estonian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Clipping of millal.

Conjunction

mil

1. when

   Kord tuleb päev, mil tuleb minna.

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

Etymology 2

Clipping of millel.

Adverb

mil (not comparable)

1. that

   Tänaval oli auto, mil olid punased triibud.

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

French

Etymology

From Latin milium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil/, /mij/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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Noun

mil m (plural mils)

1. (now dialectal) millet

   Synonym: millet

Further reading

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

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin mīlle.

Numeral

mil

1. thousand