/mil/
Translation
thousand
Word origin
From Latin mille ('a thousand'). The same root gives English 'mile' (originally a thousand paces), 'million' and 'millennium'.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- mille
- English cognates
- mile, million
Examples
.
This village has about a thousand inhabitants.
J' cette .
I have already repeated this sentence a thousand times.
euros.
The car costs more than twenty thousand euros.
fourmis.
There were thousands upon thousands of ants.
.
Thank you a thousand times for your help.
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