Latin

Alternative forms

• m.p., mp abbreviations
• mīlle passuum

Noun

mīlle passūs n ‎(genitive mīlle passūs); third declension

1. a Roman mile of 8 stadia ‎(“stades”); 1,000 passūs ‎(“paces”); or 5,000 pedēs ‎(“feet”), approximately 4,854 English feet.

Inflection

Third declension adjective with fourth declension noun.

Derived terms

• mīlle ‎(“mile”)

Related terms

• mīlliārium
• mīlliārius
• mīllēnārius

References

• mille in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mille” on page 1,109/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)