Etymograph

English

milla

Milla comes from Spanish milla ‘Spanish mile’, and goes back to Latin mīlle ‘1000’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmīlle1‘1000’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmīlia1‘Roman mile’plural of mīlle
  3. Spanishc. 1500–presentmilla1‘Spanish mile’
  4. Englishtodaymilla1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English milla

Earlier history not traced here. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmīlleWiktionary, English milla‘1000’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmīliaWiktionary, English milla‘Roman mile’plural of mīlle
  3. Spanishc. 1500–presentmillaWiktionary, English milla‘Spanish mile’
  4. EnglishtodaymillaWiktionary, English milla

The story

From Spanish milla (‘Spanish mile’), from Latin mīlia (‘Roman mile’), plural of mīlle (‘1000’) in reference to its composition of 1000 Roman paces.

Full etymology on Wiktionary

Linked words

through Latin mīlle ‘1000’

million, yard, billion, billiard, 11 more

through Latin mīlia ‘Roman mile’

mile, 1 more

Today it means

noun Spanish mile, a traditional Spanish unit of distance equivalent to about 1.4 km.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “milla”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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