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See also: Milium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin milium.

Pronunciation

Noun

milium (plural milia)

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

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Latin

Etymology 1

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

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    milium n (genitive miliī or milī); second declension

    1. millet
    Declension

    Second-declension noun (neuter).

    More information singular, plural ...

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

    Descendants
    • Translingual: Milium
    • → Albanian: mel
    • Aromanian: melj, meljiu
    • Asturian: millu
    • Catalan: mill
    • Corsican: migliu
    • Dalmatian: mail
    • French: millet, mil
    • Friulian: mei
    • Italian: miglio
    • Occitan: melh, milhet
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: milho
      • Fala: millu
      • Galician: millo
      • Portuguese: milho (see there for further descendants)
    • Romanian: mei
    • Sicilian: migghiu
    • Spanish: mijo
    • Venetan: méjo
    • Walloon: milet

    Etymology 2

    Inflected form of mīlle (“thousand”)

    Pronunciation

    Numeral

    mīlium

    1. genitive plural of mīlle (“thousand; 1000”)
    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.
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