miles

Significado (Inglés)

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

Sinónimos

Frecuencia

B1
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
[ˈmiː.ɫɛs]
Etimoloxía (Inglés)

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.

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