miles

Betekenis (Engels)

(declension-3) A soldier.
(Medieval-Latin, declension-3) A knight.
(declension-3) A man in boardgames such as ludus latrunculi and chess.

bellator

belligerator

mīles

στρατιώτης

Frekwensie

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

[ˈmiː.ɫɛs]

Unknown; possibly of Etruscan origin. The suffix seems similar to that of comes, eques, pedes, and veles, but the origin of the mīl- is obscure. A connection to mīlia (“thousands”), perhaps as "person going by the thousand(s)", is difficult to confidently motivate semantically.