milla - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

• Beginning
• 1 English
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Noun
    * 1.2.1 Synonyms
    * 1.2.2 Coordinate terms
• 2 Catalan
  • 2.1 Pronunciation
  • 2.2 Noun
• 3 Lombard
  • 3.1 Etymology
  • 3.2 Numeral
• 4 Quechua
  • 4.1 Noun
    * 4.1.1 Declension
    * 4.1.2 See also
• 5 Spanish
  • 5.1 Etymology
  • 5.2 Pronunciation
  • 5.3 Noun
    * 5.3.1 Coordinate terms
    * 5.3.2 Derived terms
  • 5.4 Further reading

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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.

• IPA(key): /ˈmiʝa/ [ˈmi.ʝa]

• IPA(key): /ˈmiʝa/ [ˈmi.ʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)

• IPA(key): /ˈmiʎa/ [ˈmi.ʎa] (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)

• IPA(key): /ˈmiʃa/ [ˈmi.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)

• IPA(key): /ˈmiʒa/ [ˈmi.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -iʝa

• Rhymes: -iʝa (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)

• Rhymes: -iʎa (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)

• Rhymes: -iʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)

• Rhymes: -iʒa (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• 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)

• a las millas

• milla marina

• milla marítima

• milla náutica

• milla terrestre

• mijero

• “milla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• “milla”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “milla”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA

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