milium

See also: Milium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin milium.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪliəm

Noun

milium (plural milia)

  1. (dermatology) A keratin-filled cyst that can appear just under the epidermis or on the roof of the mouth.

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Latin

Etymology 1

    From Proto-Italic *meljom, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”), see also Ancient Greek μελίνη (melínē, “millet”) and Lithuanian málnos (“millet”).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    milium n (genitive miliī or milī); second declension

    1. millet
    Declension

    Second-declension noun (neuter).

    singular plural
    nominative milium milia
    genitive miliī
    milī1     		miliōrum
    dative miliō miliīs
    accusative milium milia
    ablative miliō miliīs
    vocative milium milia

    1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

    Descendants
    • Translingual: Milium
    • → Albanian: mel
    • Aromanian: melj, meljiu
    • Asturian: millu
    • Catalan: mill
    • Corsican: migliu
    • Dalmatian: mail
    • French: millet, mil
    • Friulian: mei
    • Italian: miglio
    • Occitan: melh, milhet
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: milho
      • Fala: millu
      • Galician: millo
      • Portuguese: milho (see there for further descendants)
    • Romanian: mei
    • Sicilian: migghiu
    • Spanish: mijo
    • Venetan: méjo
    • Walloon: milet

    Etymology 2

    Inflected form of mīlle (“thousand”)

    Pronunciation

    Numeral

    mīlium

    1. genitive plural of mīlle (“thousand; 1000”)
    Usage notes

    See Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

    References

    • “milium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “milium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • milium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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