milhenta

• milenta

From millhar, "a thousand", with a rarely productive suffix -enta, equivalent to English -ty, extracted by reanalysis from quarenta (“forty”), cincuenta (“fifty”) etc. Compare Galician millenta and Asturian milenta.

• IPA^(key): [miˈʎẽ(j̃)(ŋ)tɐ]

milhenta f (plural milhentas)

1. (Northern Portugal) a thousand (loosely)

   Synonym: milhar

2. (Northern Portugal) a zillion; a countless quantity

• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “milhenta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN