milium

See also: Milium

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-der.

Proto-Italic *meljom

Latin miliumlbor.

English milium

Learned borrowing from Latin milium. Compare Middle English mile.

Pronunciation

• enPR: mĭl′ē-əm
• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪl.iː.əm/
• (General American, Canada, Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪl.i.əm/; (also Scotland) /ˈmɪl.i.ʌm/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈməl.iː.əm/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪl.iː.um/

• Rhymes: -ɪliəm
• Hyphenation: mil‧i‧um

Noun

milium (plural milia)

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

   Synonyms: milk spot, oilseed

Translations

keratin-filled cyst

• Arabic: دخينة
• Dutch: gerstekorrel (nl) m
• Finnish: luufinni (fi)
• French: milium (fr) m
• German: Grießkorn n, Hautgrieß m, Milium n
• Japanese: 稗粒腫
• Polish: prosak (pl) m inan
• Russian: милиум (ru) m (milium)
• Swedish: milium n

Further reading

• “milium”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Latin

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Italic *meljom, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”). Compare Ancient Greek μελῐ́νη (melĭ́nē, “millet”) and Lithuanian málnos (“millet”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɪ.li.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmiː.li.um]
• Hyphenation: mi‧li‧um

Noun

milia in agrō ― millets in the field (etymology 1, noun sense 1)

milium n (genitive miliī); second declension

2. millet (any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	milium	milia
genitive	miliī	miliōrum
dative	miliō	miliīs
accusative	milium	milia
ablative	miliō	miliīs
vocative	milium	milia

Related terms

• miliaceus
• miliacus
• mīliginis

Descendants

• Translingual: Milium
• → Albanian: mel
• Aragonese: milloca
• Aromanian: melj, meljiu
• Asturian: millu
• Catalan: mill
• Corsican: migliu
• Dalmatian: mail
• French: millet, mil
  • → English: millet
• Friulian: mei
• Italian: miglio
• Occitan: milh, milhet, milhòc
• Old Galician-Portuguese: milho
  • Fala: millu
  • Galician: millo
  • Portuguese: milho (see there for further descendants)
• Romanian: mei
• Sicilian: migghiu
• Spanish: mijo
• Venetan: méjo
• Walloon: milet

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmiː.li.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmiː.li.um]
• Hyphenation: mī‧li‧um

Numeral

mīlium

1. genitive plural of mīlle

Usage notes

See Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers § mīlle.

References

• “mĭlĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• milium in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 921
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “milium”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• “mĭlĭum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 976.
• Harm Pinkster, editor (2018), “milium”, in Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands‎^[2], 7th revised edition, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC
• Latino-Sinicum [translated as: 包米 (bāomǐ); 栗米 (lì mǐ); 黍稷 (shǔ jì); — Indicum translated as: 膏梁], in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “milium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers