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mīlle thousand
mīlle is a Latin Adjective that primarily means thousand.
Definitions for mīlle
Wheelock's Latin
Adjective
- 1
thousand, thousands
English derivatives:
millennium millennial mile milli- milligram millimeter millipede million mill (=1/10 cent) bimillenium millefiori
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adjective
- 1
A thousand: (a) (as sb., w. defnining gen.). (b) (as adj.; esp. vaguely of hyperb., of any large number).
- 2
(pl. w. qualifying numeral) (So many) thousand: (a) (as sb. w. defining gen.); (without numeral) thousands, large numbers (of). (b) (as sb. in appos. to the numbered sb., which it usu. follows).
- 3
~e (pl. ~ia) passuum or ~e passus, A thousand passus, a Roman mile (about 1500 m.).
- 4
(ellipt.): (a) A thousand persons, soldiers, etc. (b) a thousand passus, a mile (= ~e passuum); (app also) a milestone. (c) a thousand sesterces, drachmas, etc. (d) (w. part. gen.) a thousand measures, pounds, etc. (of).
Sentences with mīlle
Latin to English
Itaque centum Rōmānī mīlle Graecōs vīcērunt.Compare Therefore a hundred Romans conquered a thousand Greeks.
Itaque mīlle versūs manibus suīs scrīpsērunt.Compare And so they have written a thousand verses with their own hands.
Sī quis hunc labōrem suscēpisset, mīlle virōs servāvisset.Compare If someone had undertaken this work, he would have saved a thousand men.
Omnis, quicunque ago, subjectus sum mille casus scio.Compare I know that all things, whatsoever we do, are subject to a thousand accidents.
Declension table for mīlle
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | mīlle | mīllia / mīlia |
| Gen. | mīlle | mīllium / mīlium |
| Dat. | mīlle | mīllibus / mīlibus |
| Acc. | mīlle | mīllia / mīlia |
| Abl. | mīlle | mīllibus / mīlibus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 100.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1109.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 120.
Bibliography
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Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th ed. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Delatte, Louis, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard. Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language]. Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège (L.A.S.L.A.), 1981.
Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
Gildersleeve, Basil L., and Gonzales Lodge. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar: Third Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. 3rd ed. London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1903.
Glare, Peter G.W. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Vols. 1-8. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1982.
Krüger, Bernd. "Latin Conjugation Tables." Cactus2000. Accessed May 5, 2023. https://latin.cactus2000.de/index.en.php.
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Wheelock, Frederick M. Wheelock's Latin. 6th ed. Revised by Richard A. LaFleur. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
Wiktionary Contributors. "Victionarium." Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Updated March 18, 2019. https://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Victionarium:Pagina_prima.
Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "mīlle (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/mille-milia-milium.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 100.mīlle on page 100
