mille

Meaning

Num

thousand, one thousand, a thousand

Noun

1. mile (abbreviation mi)
2. Short for mille nautique (“nautical mile”).
3. bullseye

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mil/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French mille, from Old French mile, from Latin mīlle (“thousand”) (plural mīlia), from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”).

Sentences

Dans une grande ville de France , en mille sept cent soixante-trois .

In a great city of France, in one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three.

( Dupuy et Tenré, mille huit cent trente-trois .

(Dupuy and Tenré, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

Un mille encore , et on apercevrait le ponceau du creek Glycérine .

Another mile and they would see the bridge over Creek Glycerine.

Le cimetière abrite environ six mille sépultures où reposent environ vingt-trois mille défunts .

The cemetery houses about six thousand burials where about twenty-three thousand deceased rest.

La parole est à Monsieur Germinal Peiro, rapporteur , pour soutenir l’amendement numéro mille trente-deux .

Mr Germinal Peiro, rapporteur, has the floor to support amendment number one thousand and thirty-two.