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milha

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mil-ha
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A traditional Portuguese unit of distance, equivalent to about 1481.5, 1851.9, or 2057.6 m depending on the league used.

Etymology

From Portuguese milha (“Portuguese mile”), from Latin mīlia (“Roman mile”), plural of mīlle (“thousand”) from its length of 1000 Roman paces, from Proto-Indo-European *(sm̥-)ǵʰéslo-. Doublet of mile and milla.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: milha, mīlia, *(sm̥-)ǵʰéslo-

Inflected Forms

milhas (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

estadio legua (3 milhas)

Synonyms

Portuguese mile mile

Questions

What does milha mean?
A traditional Portuguese unit of distance, equivalent to about 1481.5, 1851.9, or 2057.6 m depending on the league used.
Where does milha come from?
It is traced to Portuguese.

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