milliarium
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From mīlle (“thousand”) + -ārium (of purpose), via mīlliārius (“relating to thousands of steps, i.e., miles”).
Noun
[edit]mīlliārium n (genitive mīlliāriī or mīlliārī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | mīlliārium | mīlliāria |
| genitive | mīlliāriī mīlliārī1 |
mīlliāriōrum |
| dative | mīlliāriō | mīlliāriīs |
| accusative | mīlliārium | mīlliāria |
| ablative | mīlliāriō | mīlliāriīs |
| vocative | mīlliārium | mīlliāria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]See also mīlliārius:
- Catalan: miller
- Istriot: miera
- Italian: migliaio
- Portuguese: milheiro
- Sicilian: migghiaru
- Spanish: mijero
References
[edit]- “milliarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “milliarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers