milliarium

Latin

Alternative forms

• miliārium

Etymology

From mīlle (“thousand”) +‎ -ārium (of purpose), via mīlliārius (“relating to thousands of steps, i.e., miles”).

Noun

mīlliārium n (genitive mīlliāriī or mīlliārī); second declension

1. milestone
2. column resembling a milestone

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	mīlliārium	mīlliāria
genitive	mīlliāriī mīlliārī1	mīlliāriōrum
dative	mīlliāriō	mīlliāriīs
accusative	mīlliārium	mīlliāria
ablative	mīlliāriō	mīlliāriīs
vocative	mīlliārium	mīlliāria

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

Related terms

• mīlliārius

Descendants

See also mīlliārius:

• Catalan: miller
• Istriot: miera
• Italian: migliaio
• Portuguese: milheiro
• Sicilian: migghiaru
• Spanish: mijero

References

• “milliarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “milliarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers