milha.
milha, Portuguese mile, a traditional unit of distance equivalent to about 1481.5, 1851.9, or 2057.6 m depending on the number of equatorial degrees per league
Meaning & usage
milha, Portuguese mile, a traditional unit of distance equivalent to about 1481.5, 1851.9, or 2057.6 m depending on the number of equatorial degrees per league
English or American mile, a unit of distance equivalent to about 1.61 km
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese milha, from Latin mīlia, plural of mīlle (“thousand”) from its length of 1000 Roman paces, from Proto-Indo-European *(sm̥-)ǵʰéslo-. Cognate with Galician, Spanish, and Catalan milla.
maize straw
Where this word comes from
From milho (“maize”), from Old Galician-Portuguese millo, from Latin milium (“millet”).
inflection of milhar: third-person singular present indicative
inflection of milhar: second-person singular imperative
Where this word comes from
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