Translation
mile
Word origin
From the Germanic form of the word, English mile and German Meile, going back to Latin milia passuum, a thousand paces, the Roman army's marching unit.
- Origin
- Latin via Germanic
- Root
- milia passuum
- English cognates
- mile, mille
Examples
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One mile is longer than one kilometre.
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We walked five miles.
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The town is ten miles from here.
earns its rank from the old texts rather than from modern use: Esperanto is a metric language in practice, and you will meet far more often. Keep it for translating English and for the historical sense, and note that a mile has never been one fixed length - the Roman, English and old Scandinavian miles all differ, so a in a nineteenth-century text is a rough distance, not a measurement. Distances take the accusative without a preposition: , ten miles.
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