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Galician
Etymology 1
Attested since circa 1300, from Medieval Latin milliaris. Cognate with Portuguese milhar and Spanish millar.
Pronunciation
Noun
millar m (plural millares)
- a thousand
- 1433, A. Rodríguez González & J. Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 48:
- Sabean todos que eu Maria Peres, filla de Pero Ares, mareante, morador ẽna villa de Pontevedra, que soo presente, confeso et outorgo que devo et ey de dar et pagar a vos Ares Garçia de Rajoo, mercador, vesiño da dita villa, que sodes presente, dose millares de sardiña arenquada, boa et merchante
- Synonyms: mil, milleiro, millenta
- (archaic) mile
c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 160:Et tornãdo aqueles passos em estados, et os estados em millares, et os millares em legoas, acharedes y em cada quadra, segũdo esta conta, sete legoas et media, et [ẽnas] quatro quadras [trijnta] legoas; et por esta conta de çerto he que ouvo aquela çidade de [Babilonja trijnta] legoas ẽno çirco aderredor.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Etymology 2
From Old Galician-Portuguese millar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from millo + -ar.
Pronunciation
Noun
millar m (plural millares)
- millet field
- Synonym: millaria
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “millar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “millar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “millar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “millar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “millar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Middle English
Noun
millar
- Alternative form of mylnere
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mīliāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /miˈʝaɾ/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /miˈʎaɾ/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /miˈʃaɾ/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /miˈʒaɾ/
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: mi‧llar
Noun
millar m (plural millares)
- a unit or group of one thousand
- a thousandish
- a large, indeterminate number
Further reading
Swedish
Noun
millar
- indefinite plural of mille