milium
See also: Milium
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪliəm
Noun
milium (plural milia)
- (dermatology) A keratin-filled cyst that can appear just under the epidermis or on the roof of the mouth.
Synonyms
Translations
keratin-filled cyst
Further reading
- Milium (disease) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmɪ.li.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmiː.li.um]
Noun
milium n (genitive miliī or milī); second declension
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).
Related terms
- miliaceus
- miliacus
- mīliginis
Descendants
- Translingual: Milium
- → Albanian: mel
- Aragonese: milloca
- Aromanian: melj, meljiu
- Asturian: millu
- Catalan: mill
- Corsican: migliu
- Dalmatian: mail
- French: millet, mil
- → English: millet
- Friulian: mei
- Italian: miglio
- Occitan: milh, milhet, milhòc
- Old Galician-Portuguese: milho
- Romanian: mei
- Sicilian: migghiu
- Spanish: mijo
- Venetan: méjo
- Walloon: milet
Etymology 2
Inflected form of mīlle (“thousand”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmiː.li.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmiː.li.um]
Numeral
mīlium
- 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.