different between liter vs mil

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?li.t?/, [?li.??]
  • Homophone: leader
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?li?.t?/
• Rhymes: -i?t?(?)
• Hyphenation: li?ter

Noun

liter (plural liters)

1. (American spelling) Alternative form of litre, one cubic decimeter.

Translations

Anagrams

• litre, relit, tiler, triel

Danish

Noun

liter c (definite singular literen, indefinite plural liter, definite plural literne)

1. a litre, or liter (US) (SI unit for measurement of volume)

Derived terms

• centiliter
• milliliter

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French litre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li.t?r/
• Hyphenation: li?ter
• Rhymes: -it?r

Noun

liter m (plural liters, diminutive litertje n)

1. litre

Derived terms

• centiliter
• decaliter
• deciliter
• hectoliter
• milliliter

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: liter

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lit?r]
• Hyphenation: li?ter
• Rhymes: -?r

Noun

liter (plural literek)

1. litre (unit of fluid measure)

Declension

Derived terms

• deciliter
• milliliter

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch liter, from French litre, from Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek ????? (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lit?r]
• Hyphenation: li?têr

Noun

liter (first-person possessive literku, second-person possessive litermu, third-person possessive liternya)

1. liter, litre: the metric unit of fluid measure, equal to one cubic decimetre. Symbols: l, L, ?.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “liter” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Ladin

Verb

liter

1. To vote

Conjugation

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Latin

Verb

liter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of lit?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French litre, Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek ????? (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”).

Noun

liter m (definite singular literen, indefinite plural liter, definite plural literne)

1. a litre (UK) or liter (US)

Derived terms

References

• “liter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From French litre, Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek ????? (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li?t?r/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

liter m (definite singular literen, indefinite plural liter, definite plural literane or litrane)

1. a litre (UK) or liter (US)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

liter

1. (non-standard since 2012) present tense of lite

Etymology 3

Noun

lìter m

1. (non-standard since 1917) indefinite plural of lìt

References

• “liter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin littera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l??it?er/

Noun

liter f

1. letter of the alphabet
2. (in plural) act of writing, (Christianity) written law
3. letter, epistle, dispatch
4. (in plural) books, histories

Inflection

Derived terms

• literda (“literary, literal”)

Descendants

• Irish: litir
• Manx: lettyr
• Scottish Gaelic: litir

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “liter”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lit?r/

Noun

liter m (genitive singular litra, nominative plural litre, genitive plural litrov, declension pattern of stroj)

1. litre (unit of fluid measure)

Declension

Derived terms

• litrový
• litrík
• litrí?ek
• litrisko

Further reading

• liter in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lì?t?r/

Noun

lít?r m inan

1. litre (unit of fluid measure)

Inflection

Swedish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

liter c

1. (uncountable, not inflected) litre; a measure of volume
2. litre; an amount of 1 litre of something

Declension

Tatar

Noun

liter

1. litre.

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?l/
• Rhymes: -?l
• Homophone: mill

Noun

mil (plural mils)

1. An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to ¹?₆₄₀₀ of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also ¹?_6o00 and ¹?₆₃₀₀ are used in other countries.
2. A unit of measurement equal to ¹?₁₀₀₀ of an inch, usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic.
3. a former subdivision (¹?₁₀₀₀) of the Maltese lira
4. (informal, plural "mil") Abbreviation of million.
   • 2009, Bob Frey, The DVD Murders (page 39)

     The cheapest shack in this part of the woods would probably set the buyer back at least a couple of mil.

   • 2010 September, Galen Gondolfi, "Idea Fun(d)", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 79:

     You can get things done without money, but you can do a hell of a lot more with it, and $10 mil is a good starting point.

5. (informal) Clipping of milliliter (“millilitre”)., Acronym of mL.

Translations

See also

• degree, deg
• radian, rad
• grad
• second
• minute
• for abbreviation, see mil.
• mil-dot

Anagrams

• -lim-, ILM, Lim, MLI

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin m?lle.

Numeral

mil (indeclinable)

1. one thousand; 1000

Usage notes

In compound numbers, mil does not inflect or change:

Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi?l/

Etymology 1

From Latin m?lia.

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Etymology 2

From Middle Breton mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil (compare Cornish myl, Welsh mil), from Proto-Celtic *m?lom (compare Old Irish míl and its descendants; Irish míol, Scottish Gaelic míl, Manx meeyl), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh?l- (“small animal””).

Compare Ancient Greek ????? (mêlon, “lamb”), Armenian ??? (mal, “sheep; mutton; wether; cattle; livestock”), Central Kurdish ???? (mall, “livestock”), Dutch maal (“calf”).

Noun

mil m (plural miled)

1. (rare) animal

   Synonyms: aneval, loen

Mutation

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin m?lle, from Proto-Italic *sm??esl?, from Proto-Indo-European *smih???éslih? (“one thousand”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?mil/
• Rhymes: -il

Numeral

mil m or f

1. thousand

Noun

mil m (plural mils)

1. thousand

Further reading

• “mil” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mil” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “mil” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mil” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mil, from Old Spanish mil, mill, from Latin m?lle.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mil

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mil.

Chavacano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mil (“thousand”).

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin mel.

Noun

mil m

1. honey

Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?l

Noun

mil

1. mile, unit of length of varying value

Declension

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mille.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil/
• Hyphenation: mil
• Audio:

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Estonian

Conjunction

mil

1. Clipping of millal.
2. when

Adverb

mil

1. Clipping of millel.
2. what

French

Etymology

From Latin milium, from Proto-Indo-European *melh?- (“to grind, crush”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil/, /mij/

Noun

mil m (plural mils)

1. (now dialectal) millet

   Synonym: millet

Further reading

• “mil” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin m?lle.

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese mil, from Latin m?lle, from Proto-Italic *sm??esl?, from Proto-Indo-European *smih???éslih? (“one thousand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mil/

Numeral

mil (indeclinable)

1. one thousand; 1000

Etymology 2

1474. From Vulgar Latin *medianile, from Latin medi?nus. Compare the cognates mión and molo.

Alternative forms

• bile, milde, minle

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mil/

Noun

mil m (plural miles)

1. central piece of the Galician cart wheel
   • 1474, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 66:

     Iten, preçaron hun rrodisioe dous miilles de carro em noventa maravedis

     Item, they appraised a water wheel and two wheel centers of a cart in ninety maravedis

   Synonyms: mión, miúl, molo

References

• “mil” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “miil” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “mil” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “mil” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “mil” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mil” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Gamilaraay

Noun

mil

1. eye

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto mil, French mille, Italian mille, Spanish mil, from Latin m?lle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil/

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish mil, from Proto-Celtic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognate with Latin mel, Ancient Greek ???? (méli). Akin to milis and blas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??l?/

Noun

mil f (genitive singular meala)

1. honey

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

References

• "mil" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “mil”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “mil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “mil” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “mil” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese mil.

Numeral

mil

1. thousand (1000)

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin mel, mellis.

Noun

mil ? (plural [please provide])

1. honey

Lule

Pronoun

mil

1. you (plural)

References

• Antonio Maccioni / Machoni, Arte y vocabulario de la lengua lule y tonocoté (1732)

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German mül, müle, from Old High German mul?, mulin, from Proto-Germanic *mul?n?, *mul?naz, from Late Latin mol?num (“mill”). Cognate with German Mühle, English mill.

Noun

mil f

1. mill

References

• “mil” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Ngiyambaa

Noun

mil

1. (anatomy) eye

Northern Kurdish

Noun

mil ?

1. arm
2. shoulder
3. neck

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin milia, millia and Old Norse míla

Noun

mil m or f (definite singular mila or milen, indefinite plural mil, definite plural milene)

1. (today in Norway) a distance of 10 kilometres
2. gammel norsk mil - old Norwegian mile, a distance of 11.3 kilometres
3. engelsk mil - a mile, 1.609 kilometres, as used in Britain and the US.

Derived terms

• nautisk mil
• sjømil

References

• “mil” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin milia, millia and Old Norse míla.

Noun

mil f (definite singular mila, indefinite plural mil, definite plural milene)mil m or f (definite singular mila, indefinite plural mil, definite plural milene)

1. (today in Norway) a distance of 10 kilometres
2. gammal norsk mil - old Norwegian mile, a distance of 11.3 kilometres
3. engelsk mil - a mile, 1.609 kilometres, as used in Britain and the US.

Usage notes

Indefinite plural miler was made non-standard by the spelling reform of 2012.

Derived terms

• nautisk mil
• sjømil

References

• “mil” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• mila

Etymology

From Latin m?lle.

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Related terms

• milen
• milion

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, ?ISBN, page 648.

Old English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin m?lia, plural of the numeral m?lle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?l/

Noun

m?l f

1. mile

Descendants

• Middle English: myle, mile
  • Scots: mile
  • English: mile

Old French

Numeral

mil

1. Alternative form of mile (“thousand”)

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish mil and Portuguese mil and Kabuverdianu mil.

Numeral

mil

1. thousand (1000)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese mil, from Latin m?lle, from Proto-Italic *sm??esl?, from Proto-Indo-European *smih???éslih? (“one thousand”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mi?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /miw/
• Rhymes: -iw

Adjective

mil m or f

2. one thousand; a thousand; 1000
4. (somewhat poetic) thousands of (very many)

   Synonyms: milhares de, um milhão de

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mil.

Related terms

• milhar

Descendants

• ? Kadiwéu: miili

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish mil (genitive mela), from Proto-Celtic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognate with Welsh mêl, Cornish mill, Breton mel, Latin mel, Greek ???? (méli), Gothic ???????????????????? (miliþ), Old Armenian ???? (me?r).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil/, /m?il/

Noun

mil f (genitive singular mealach or meala, plural mealan)

1. honey

Related terms

• mìlseachd
• mìlse
• milis
• meilc

Mutation

References

• “mil” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “mil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *mil?. Cognate with Polish mi?y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mí?l/

Adjective

m?l (comparative mil?jši, superlative n?jmil?jši)

1. kind
2. dear

Inflection

Further reading

• “mil”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish mil, mill, from Latin m?lle, from Proto-Italic *sm??esl?, from Proto-Indo-European *smih???éslih? (“one thousand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mil/, [?mil]
• Rhymes: -il

Numeral

mil (plural miles)

1. thousand

Usage notes

• In definite numbers, the plural miles is never used:

dos mil pesos – "two thousand pesos" ($2,000)

cien mil pesos – "a hundred thousand pesos" ($100,000)

• Miles is only used in the indefinite sense:

miles de pesos – "thousands of pesos"

Derived terms

• a las mil maravillas
• a mil por hora
• diez mil
• las mil
• mil leches
• mil millones

Related terms

• millar
• milenio

Descendants

• ? Navajo: mííl
• ? Taos: míl, míl?

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?l/

Noun

mil c

1. (after 1889) Unit of length, equal to 10,000 meters

   Synonyms: nymil, myriameter

2. (between 1699 and 1889) Unit of length, equal to 10,688.54 meters

   Synonym: landmil

Declension

Anagrams

• lim

Tatar

Noun

mil

1. (archaic) a unit of length: 1 mil = 7 çaqr?m = 7.467 km (see Obsolete Tatar units of measurement)

Declension

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mil/

Noun

mil (definite accusative mili, plural miller)

1. mile (measure of length)

Volapük

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?l/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *mil (compare Cornish myl, Breton mil), from Proto-Celtic *m?lom (compare Old Irish míl and its descendants; Irish míol, Scottish Gaelic míl, Manx meeyl), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh?l- (“small animal””).

Compare Ancient Greek ????? (mêlon, “lamb”), Armenian ??? (mal, “sheep; mutton; wether; cattle; livestock”), Central Kurdish ???? (mall, “livestock”), Dutch maal (“calf”).

Noun

mil m (plural milod)

1. animal, beast, creature
2. animal not usually consumed by man

Derived terms

• carfil m (“working beast, dray horse, clumsy animal, monster”)
• cnofil m (“rodent”)
• milyn (diminutive)

Etymology 2

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin m?lle.

Numeral

mil f (plural miloedd)

1. thousand

Related terms

• mil blynyddoedd (“millennium”)

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , chapter MIL, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Wiradhuri

Alternative forms

• mill

Noun

mil

1. (anatomy) eye

Yagara

Noun

mil

1. eye

References

• State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Yugara Everyday Words.

Yapese

Verb

mil

1. to run