milha

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) inflection of milhar:
2. (form-of, imperative, second-person, singular) inflection of milhar:

milhar

• Noun
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Concepts

mile

nautical mile

mi

naut mi

statute mile

air mile

grand

stat mi

international nautical mile

Admiralty mile

Roman mile

Swedish mile

international mile

land mile

geographical mile

knot

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mil

sea mile

Synonyms

milha náutica

nó

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Translations

milla

milla

Meile

mille

1000

miglio

mijl

μίλι

mila

miglio nautico

mil

mille marin

Seemeile

mile

mi

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmi.ʎɐ/

Etymology

Inherited from Latin: mīlia

In summary

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.