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roman mile

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.24 in modern English

Syllables
ro-man mile
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An ancient Roman unit of itinerant distance of 1000 paces (mille passus, hence also "mile" from Latin mille, "1000"). Indirectly standardized to 5000 Roman feet by Agrippa in 29 BC. In modern times, Agrippa's Imperial Roman mile is empirically estimated to have been around 1481 meters (1620 yards, 4860 English feet, 0.92 English miles); compared with a modern mile, which is 5280 feet.

Etymology

Roman + mile

Inflected Forms

Roman miles (plural)

Synonyms

mile

Questions

What does roman mile mean?
An ancient Roman unit of itinerant distance of 1000 paces (mille passus, hence also "mile" from Latin mille, "1000"). Indirectly standardized to 5000 Roman feet by Agrippa in 29 BC. In modern times, Agrippa's Imperial Roman mile is empirically estimated to have been around 1481 meters (1620 yards, 4860 English feet, 0.92 English miles); compared with a modern mile, which is 5280 feet.
Where does roman mile come from?
Roman + mile

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