miles
- (declension-3) A soldier.
- (Medieval-Latin, declension-3) A knight.
- (declension-3) A man in boardgames such as ludus latrunculi and chess.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
[ˈmiː.ɫɛs]
Etymology
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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