milia

milia is a Latin form of mille, meaning “a thousand; (pl. milia) thousands; mille passuum: a mile”. It is the numeral or accusative plural neuter numeral or accusative singular neuter noun or nominative plural neuter adjective.

Found 1,558 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.2.6: Pro multitudine autem hominum et pro gloria belli atque fortitudinis angustos se fines habere arbitrabantur, qui in longitudinem milia passuum CCXL, in latitudinem CLXXX patebant.

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.80: … pugnatur modo, lente atque paulatim proceditur, crebroque, ut sint auxilio suis, subsistunt; ut tum accidit. Milia enim progressi mi vehementiusque peragitati ab equitatu montem excelsum capiunt ibique una fronte contra host …

All forms of mille (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.