milliarium

milliarium

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

    From mīlle (“thousand”) +‎ -ārium (of purpose), via mīlliārius (“relating to thousands of steps, i.e., miles”).

    Noun

    mīlliārium n (genitive mīlliāriī or mīlliārī); second declension

    1. milestone
    2. column resembling a milestone

    Declension

    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).

    Descendants

    See also mīlliārius:

    • Catalan: miller
    • Istriot: miera
    • Italian: migliaio
    • Portuguese: milheiro
    • Sicilian: migghiaru
    • Spanish: mijero

    References

    • “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
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