miles

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɪlz/
• Rhymes: -aɪlz

Noun

miles

1. plural of mile
2. (informal) A great distance in space or time.

Adverb

miles (not comparable)

1. much; a lot (used to emphasise a comparative)

Anagrams

• Imels, Liems, Selim, limes, milse, misle, slime, smile

French

Pronunciation

Noun

miles ?

1. plural of mile

Latin

Alternative forms

• mīlex (Vulgar or Late Latin, Appendix Probi, hypercorrection)

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly of Etruscan origin. The suffix seems similar to that of pedes, eques, veles, comes, but the origin of mīl- is opaque. A connection to mīlia (“thousands”), perhaps as "person going by the thousand(s)", is difficult to confidently motivate semantically.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmiː.les/, [ˈmiːɫ̪ɛs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.les/, [ˈmiːles]

Noun

mīles m or f (genitive mīlitis); third declension

1. (military) A soldier.

   mīles gregārius ― a private (lit., a "common soldier")

2. (Medieval Latin) A knight.
3. A man in boardgames such as ludus latrunculi and chess.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

References

Further reading

• “miles”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “miles”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "miles", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• miles in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• miles in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Anagrams

• limes

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiles/ [ˈmi.les]
• Rhymes: -iles
• Syllabification: mi‧les

Noun

miles m pl (plural only)

1. thousands

   Synonym: millares

   hace miles de años ― thousands of years ago

Usage notes

• Miles is only used in the indefinite sense of the word "thousands":

  miles de pesos ― thousands of pesos

• Otherwise, the singular mil is used:

  dos mil pesos ― two thousand pesos" ($2,000)

  cien mil pesos ― a hundred thousand pesos" ($100,000)

Numeral

miles

1. plural of mil