milium

See also: Milium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin milium.

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɪliəm

Noun

milium (plural milia)

  1. (dermatology) A keratin-filled cyst that can appear just under the epidermis or on the roof of the mouth.

Synonyms
  • milk spot
  • oil seed

Translations

Further reading

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *meljom, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”), see also Ancient Greek μελίνη (melínē, “millet”) and Lithuanian málnos (“millet”).

Pronunciation
milia in agrō (millet in the field)

Noun

milium n (genitive miliī or milī); second declension

  1. millet
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative milium milia
Genitive miliī
milī1		 miliōrum
Dative miliō miliīs
Accusative milium milia
Ablative miliō miliīs
Vocative milium milia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants
  • Translingual: Milium
  • → Albanian: mel
  • Aromanian: melj, meljiu
  • Asturian: millu
  • Catalan: mill
  • Corsican: migliu
  • Dalmatian: mail
  • French: millet, mil
  • Friulian: mei
  • Italian: miglio
  • Occitan: melh, milhet
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: milho
    • Galician: millo
    • Portuguese: milho (see there for further descendants)
  • Romanian: mei
  • Spanish: mijo
  • Venetian: méjo
  • Walloon: milet

Etymology 2

Inflected form of mīlle (“thousand”)

Pronunciation

Numeral

mīlium

  1. genitive plural of mīlle (“thousand; 1000”)
Usage notes

See Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

References
  • “milium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “milium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • milium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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