milium

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin milium. Compare Middle English mile. === Pronunciation === enPR: mĭl′ē-əm (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈmɪl.iː.əm/ (General American, Canada, Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈmɪl.i.əm/; (also Scotland) /ˈmɪl.i.ʌm/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈməl.iː.əm/ (India) IPA(key): /ˈmɪl.iː.um/ Rhymes: -ɪliəm Hyphenation: mil‧i‧um === Noun === milium (plural milia) (dermatology) A keratin-filled cyst that can appear just under the epidermis or on the roof of the mouth. Synonyms: milk spot, oilseed ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “milium”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. == Latin == === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Proto-Italic *meljom, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”). Compare Ancient Greek μελῐ́νη (melĭ́nē, “millet”) and Lithuanian málnos (“millet”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmɪ.li.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmiː.li.um] Hyphenation: mi‧li‧um ==== Noun ==== milium n (genitive miliī); second declension millet (any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world) ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun (neuter). ===== Related terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmiː.li.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmiː.li.um] Hyphenation: mī‧li‧um ==== Numeral ==== mīlium genitive plural of mīlle ===== Usage notes ===== See Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers § mīlle. === References === “mĭlĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press milium in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 921 R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “milium”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC “mĭlĭum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 976. Harm Pinkster, editor (2018), “milium”, in Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands‎[2], 7th revised edition, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC Latino-Sinicum [translated as: 包米 (bāomǐ); 栗米 (lì mǐ); 黍稷 (shǔ jì); — Indicum translated as: 膏梁], in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011 “milium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers