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An ancient Roman unit of itinerant distance of 1000 paces (mille passus, hence also "mile" from Latin mille, "1000"). Indirectly standardized to 5000 Roman feet by Agrippa in 29 BC. In modern times, Agrippa's Imperial Roman mile is empirically estimated to have been around 1481 meters (1620 yards, 4860 English feet, 0.92 English miles); compared with a modern mile, which is 5280 feet.
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an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mile
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: linear unit, linear measure
Across languages
Translations
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Old Armenian:
մղոն
(młon)
— Roman unit of length
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Finnish:
roomalainen maili
— Roman unit of length
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German:
Meile
— Roman unit of length
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Ancient Greek:
μίλιον
(mílion)
— Roman unit of length
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Latin:
mille passuum
— Roman unit of length
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Latin:
mille passus
— Roman unit of length
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Latin:
mille
— Roman unit of length
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Russian:
ри́мская ми́ля
(rímskaja mílja)
— Roman unit of length
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Old Spanish:
migero
— Roman unit of length
