FromPortuguesemilha(“Portuguesemile”), fromLatinmīlia(“Romanmile”), plural ofmīlle(“thousand”) from its length of 1000 Roman paces, fromProto-Indo-European*(sm̥-)ǵʰéslo-.Doublet ofmile andmilla.
milha (pluralmilhas)
- (historical) AtraditionalPortugueseunit ofdistance,equivalent to about 1481.5, 1851.9, or 2057.6mdepending on theleagueused.
Old Galician-Portuguese
[edit]Inherited fromLatinmīlia, plural ofmīlle(“thousand”).
milha m (pluralmilhas)
- mile(customary unit derived from the Roman mile)
- Rhymes:-iʎɐ
- Hyphenation:mi‧lha
Inherited fromOld Galician-Portuguesemilha, fromLatinmīlia,[1][2] plural ofmīlle(“thousand”) from its length of 1000 Roman paces, fromProto-Indo-European*(sm̥-)ǵʰéslo-. Cognate withGalician,Spanish, andCatalanmilla.
milha f (pluralmilhas)
- (historical)milha,Portuguesemile,a traditional unit of distance equivalent to about 1481.5, 1851.9, or 2057.6 m depending on the number of equatorial degrees per league
- Coordinate terms:estádio,légua
- English orAmericanmile,a unit of distance equivalent to about 1.61 km
- Synonyms:milha imperial,milha terrestre
- Coordinate terms:pé,jarda
Frommilho(“maize”), fromOld Galician-Portuguesemillo, fromLatinmilium(“millet”).
milha f (uncountable)
- maizestraw
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
milha
- inflection ofmilhar:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
