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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

5 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈmi.ʎɐ/Brazil/ˈmi.ʎɐ/Portugal
  1. 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

    feminine · historical
  2. English or American mile, a unit of distance equivalent to about 1.61 km

    feminine
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.

noun/ˈmi.ʎɐ/Brazil/ˈmi.ʎɐ/Portugal
  1. maize straw

    feminine · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From milho (“maize”), from Old Galician-Portuguese millo, from Latin milium (“millet”).

verb/ˈmi.ʎɐ/Brazil/ˈmi.ʎɐ/Portugal
  1. inflection of milhar: third-person singular present indicative

    form-of · indicative · present · singular · third-person
  2. inflection of milhar: second-person singular imperative

    form-of · imperative · second-person · singular
Where this word comes from

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