Wordiyomille
LatinVariants
millemillmilli
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About This Root
From Latin mille (thousand). Gives us millennium (a thousand years), million (originally 'great thousand'), and mile (from mille passus, a thousand paces). The prefix milli- in the metric system means one-thousandth, a reversal of the original 'thousand' meaning.
Associated Words
kilometre
A unit of length equal to 1000 metres (British/Australian spelling)
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kilowatt
A unit of power equal to 1000 watts
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mile
a unit of distance of 1,760 yards
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millennia
Plural of millennium; thousands of years
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millennium
A period of one thousand years; a thousandth anniversary
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million
The number 1,000,000; a very large number
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