milha

From Portuguese milha (“Portuguese mile”), from Latin mīlia (“Roman mile”), plural of mīlle (“thousand”) from its length of 1000 Roman paces, from Proto-Indo-European *(sm̥-)ǵʰéslo-. Doublet of mile and milla.

milha (plural milhas)

1. (historical) A traditional Portuguese unit of distance, equivalent to about 1481.5, 1851.9, or 2057.6 m depending on the league used.

• Portuguese mile, mile (Portuguese contexts)

• estadio (⅛ milha), legua (3 milhas)

• Rhymes: -iʎɐ
• Hyphenation: mi‧lha

From Old Portuguese milla, from Latin mīlia (“Roman mile”), plural of mīlle (“thousand”) from its length of 1000 Roman paces, from Proto-Indo-European *(sm̥-)ǵʰéslo-. Cognate with Catalan and Spanish milla.

milha f (plural milhas)

1. (historical) milha, Portuguese mile, 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
2. English or American mile, a unit of distance equivalent to about 1.61 km

• (English unit): milha imperial, milha terrestre

• (Portuguese unit): estádio (¹⁄₈ milha), quilômetro (modern equivalent), légua (3 milhas)
• (English unit): pé (1/5280 milha), jarda (1/1760 milha)

• milha aérea, milha imperial, milha marítima, milha romana, milha terrestre

• mil

From milho (“maize”), from Old Portuguese millo, from Latin milium (“millet”).

milha f (uncountable)

1. maize straw

• milhal
• milhar
• milharal
• milho

milha

1. inflection of milhar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative