millennium

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• /mɪˈlɛnɪəm/
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sm̥- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-ih2 Proto-Indo-European *smih2 Proto-Indo-European *ǵhes- Proto-Indo-European *-lom Proto-Indo-European *ǵhéslom ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-ih2 Proto-Indo-European *ǵhéslih2 Proto-Indo-European *smih2ǵhéslih2 Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī Latin mīlle Proto-Italic *atnos? Latin annus Latin annīs Latin mīllennis Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Late Latin mīllenniumbor. English millennium From Late Latin mīllennium, from Latin mīllennis (“1000-year”) + -ium (forming abstract nouns).

119 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: tuhatvuotinen valtakunta — Christianity: the 1000 year reign of Christ
• French: millénium — Christianity: the 1000 year reign of Christ
• Greek: χιλιετηρίδα (chilietirída) — Christianity: the 1000 year reign of Christ
• Norwegian Bokmål: millennium — Christianity: the 1000 year reign of Christ
• Finnish: tuhatvuotinen valtakunta — period of universal happiness
• French: millénium — period of universal happiness
• Japanese: 至福千年 — period of universal happiness
• Japanese: 千年王国 — period of universal happiness
• Iranian Persian: دوران طلایی (dowrân talâyi) — period of universal happiness
• Swedish: tusenårsrike — period of universal happiness
• Afrikaans: millennium — thousand-year period
• Arabic: أَلْفِيَّة (ʔalfiyya) — thousand-year period
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܠܦܝܘܼܬܵܐ (ālpyuta) — thousand-year period
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܠܹܢܝܘܿܡ (milenyom) — thousand-year period
• Armenian: հազարամյակ (hazaramyak) — thousand-year period
• Asturian: mileniu — thousand-year period
• Azerbaijani: minillik — thousand-year period
• Belarusian: тысячаго́ддзе (tysjačahóddzje) — thousand-year period
• Breton: milved — thousand-year period
• Bulgarian: хилядоле́тие (hiljadolétie) — thousand-year period
• Burmese: ထောင်စုနှစ် (htaungcu.hnac) — thousand-year period
• Catalan: mil·lenni — thousand-year period
• Cherokee: ᎠᎦᏴᎵ ᏧᏕᏘᏗ (agayvli tsudetidi) — thousand-year period
• Chinese Cantonese: 千年 (cin1 nin4) — thousand-year period
• Chinese Cantonese: 千紀 /千纪 (cin1 gei2) — thousand-year period
• Chinese Mandarin: 千年 (qiānnián) — thousand-year period
• Chinese Mandarin: 千紀 /千纪 (qiānjì) — thousand-year period
• Czech: tisíciletí — thousand-year period
• Danish: årtusinde — thousand-year period
• Danish: millennium — thousand-year period
• Dutch: millennium — thousand-year period
• Esperanto: jarmilo — thousand-year period
• Estonian: aastatuhat — thousand-year period
• Estonian: millennium — thousand-year period
• Faroese: ártúsund — thousand-year period
• Faroese: túsundár — thousand-year period
• Faroese: túsundáraskeið — thousand-year period
• Finnish: vuosituhat — thousand-year period
• French: millénaire — thousand-year period
• West-Frisian: milennium — thousand-year period
• Friulian: mileni — thousand-year period
• Galician: milenio — thousand-year period
• Georgian: ათასწლეული (atasc̣leuli) — thousand-year period
• German: Jahrtausend — thousand-year period
• German: Millennium — thousand-year period
• Greek: χιλιετία (chilietía) — thousand-year period
• Hebrew: מִילֶניוּם (milényum) — thousand-year period
• Hindi: सहस्राब्दी (sahasrābdī) — thousand-year period
• Hungarian: évezred — thousand-year period
• Icelandic: árþúsund — thousand-year period
• Icelandic: þúsöld — thousand-year period
• Ido: yarmilo — thousand-year period
• Indonesian: milenium — thousand-year period
• Indonesian: alaf — thousand-year period
• Irish: mílaoise — thousand-year period
• Italian: millennio — thousand-year period
• Japanese: 千年 (sennen) — thousand-year period
• Japanese: 千年紀 (sennenki) — thousand-year period
• Japanese: 千年間 (sennenkan) — thousand-year period
• Japanese: 千年期 (sennenki) — thousand-year period
• Japanese: ミレニアム (mireniamu) — thousand-year period
• Khmer: សហស្សវត្សរ៍ (saʼhahsaʼvŏət) — thousand-year period
• Korean: 천년 (cheonnyeon) — thousand-year period
• Korean: 천년기 (cheonnyeon'gi) — thousand-year period
• Korean: 밀레니엄 (millenieom) — thousand-year period
• Central Kurdish: ھەزارە (hezare) — thousand-year period
• Northern Kurdish: hezare — thousand-year period
• Northern Kurdish: hezarsal — thousand-year period
• Kyrgyz: миңжылдык (miŋjıldık) — thousand-year period
• Ladino: milenio — thousand-year period
• Lao: ສະຫະສະວັດ (sa ha sa wat) — thousand-year period
• Latin: mīllennium — thousand-year period
• Latvian: tūkstošgade — thousand-year period
• Latvian: gadu tūkstotis — thousand-year period
• Lithuanian: tūkstantmetis — thousand-year period
• Luxembourgish: Joerdausend — thousand-year period
• Malay: alaf — thousand-year period
• Malay: milenium — thousand-year period
• Malayalam: സഹസ്രാബ്ദം (sahasrābdaṁ) — thousand-year period
• Norwegian Bokmål: årtusen — thousand-year period
• Norwegian Bokmål: millennium — thousand-year period
• Norwegian Bokmål: tusenår — thousand-year period
• Norwegian Nynorsk: millennium — thousand-year period
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tusenår — thousand-year period
• Occitan: millenari — thousand-year period
• Iranian Persian: هَزارِه (hazâre) — thousand-year period
• Iranian Persian: هِزارِه (hezâre) — thousand-year period
• Piedmontese: mileni — thousand-year period
• Polish: tysiąclecie — thousand-year period
• Polish: milenium — thousand-year period
• Portuguese: milénio — thousand-year period
• Portuguese: milênio — thousand-year period
• Romanian: mileniu — thousand-year period
• Russian: тысячеле́тие (tysjačelétije) — thousand-year period
• Serbo-Croatian: тисућлеће — thousand-year period
• Serbo-Croatian: тѝсућљеће — thousand-year period
• Serbo-Croatian: tisućleće — thousand-year period
• Serbo-Croatian: tìsućljeće — thousand-year period
• Slovak: tisícročie — thousand-year period
• Slovak: milénium — thousand-year period
• Slovene: tisočletje — thousand-year period
• Spanish: milenio — thousand-year period
• Swahili: milenia — thousand-year period
• Swedish: årtusende — thousand-year period
• Swedish: millennium — thousand-year period
• Tagalog: libuntaon — thousand-year period
• Telugu: సహస్రాబ్ది (sahasrābdi) — thousand-year period
• Telugu: వెయ్యేళ్ళు (veyyēḷḷu) — thousand-year period
• Thai: สหัสวรรษ (sà-hàt-sà-wát) — thousand-year period
• Turkish: milenyum — thousand-year period
• Turkish: binyıl — thousand-year period
• Ukrainian: тисячолі́ття (tysjačolíttja) — thousand-year period
• Vietnamese: thiên niên kỷ — thousand-year period
• Volapük: milyel — thousand-year period
• Welsh: mileniwm — thousand-year period
• Czech: milénium — year when a period of 1000 years ends and another begins
• Finnish: millennium — year when a period of 1000 years ends and another begins
• Iranian Persian: هزارهی سوم (hezâre-ye sevvom) — year when a period of 1000 years ends and another begins
• Tagalog: libuntaon — year when a period of 1000 years ends and another begins