milium

See also: Milium

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-der.

Latin miliumbor.

English milium

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
• 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
• Russian: милиум (ru) m (milium)
• Swedish: milium n

Further reading

• Milium (disease) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

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

Noun

milia in agrō (millet in the field)

milium n (genitive miliī or milī); second declension

1. millet

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	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).

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

Inflected form of mīlle (“thousand”)

Pronunciation

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

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.