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Latin
Etymology
From mīlle (“thousand”) + -ārium (of purpose), via mīlliārius (“relating to thousands of steps, i.e., miles”).
Noun
mīlliārium n (genitive mīlliāriī or mīlliārī); second declension
- milestone
- column resembling a milestone
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
See also mīlliārius:
References
- “milliarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “milliarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers