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Added 2 October 2026

mil

/mɪl/ noun

Latin root: millesimum Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about mil at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A Cypriot monetary unit equal to one thousandth of a pound.
A Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km.
A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch; used to specify thickness (e.g., of sheets or wire).

Origin

Ultimately from Latin millesimum. The clippings come by way of the clipped words (e.g., millilitre, millimetre, milliradian). The metric units come about via clipping of translingual milli- (“SI prefix”)

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