milliarium

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Latin

Alternative forms

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

  1. milestone
  2. column resembling a milestone

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mīlliārium mīlliāria
Genitive mīlliāriī
mīlliārī1 		mīlliāriōrum
Dative mīlliāriō mīlliāriīs
Accusative mīlliārium mīlliāria
Ablative mīlliāriō mīlliāriīs
Vocative mīlliārium mīlliāria

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
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