Mille
/miːl/noun
A French word meaning one thousand.
Did you know?French *mille* comes straight from Latin *mille*, and that same ancient numeral helped build words like *millennium* and *millipede* across Europe.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*sm̥ḱtóm?
“No secure reconstruction for the exact ancestor of Latin *mille* is universally agreed; the numeral is ancient and inherited in Italic.”
Old Latin
Latin
mille
“A thousand”
Old French
Old French
mil
“A thousand”
Modern French
French
mille
“A thousand”
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