Kilo Lingo

/mil/

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Translation

thousand

Word origin

From Latin mille ('thousand'). The same root gave million and the metric prefix milli-.

Origin
Latin
Root
mille
English cognates
mile, million, millennium

Examples

cuesta .

The ticket costs a thousand pesos.

.

I have a thousand things to do today.

.

Thanks a million for your help.

kilómetros .

We walked nearly a thousand kilometres last summer.

explicación .

He received a thousand apologies but no clear explanation.

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This word is part of lesson 9.