milla

From Spanish milla (“Spanish mile”), from Latin mīlia (“Roman mile”), plural of mīlle (“1000”) in reference to its composition of 1000 Roman paces. Doublet of mile and milha.

milla (plural millas)

1. (historical) Spanish mile, a traditional Spanish unit of distance equivalent to about 1.4 km.

• Spanish mile, mile (Spanish contexts)

• pie (¹⁄₅₀₀₀ milla), paso (¹⁄₁₀₀₀ milla), legua (3 millas)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmi.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmi.ʎa]
• Hyphenation: mi‧lla

milla f (plural milles)

1. mile, English unit of distance
2. (historical) milla, Spanish mile

From mille.

milla

1. thousand

milla

1. disgust, revulsion
2. repulsion, aversion
3. nausea
4. instep

• millay

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin mīlia (“Roman mile”), plural of mīlle (“thousand”) in reference to its composition of a thousand Roman paces. In reference to the English unit, calqued from English mile. Cognate with Catalan milla and Portuguese milha.

• Syllabification: mi‧lla

milla f (plural millas)

1. English or American mile (a unit of distance equivalent to about 1.6 km)
2. (historical) milla, Spanish mile (a traditional unit of distance equivalent to 1,000 pasos, about 1.4 km)

• (English unit): pie (¹⁄₅₂₈₀ milla), yarda (¹⁄₁₇₆₀ milla)
• (Spanish unit): pie (¹⁄₅₀₀₀ milla), paso (¹⁄₁₀₀₀ milla), legua (3 millas)

• “milla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024