mille

/mil/

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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

habitants.

This village has about a thousand inhabitants.

J' phrase .

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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This word is part of lesson 29.