milha

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milha

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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.

noun milhas

historical A traditional Portuguese unit of distance, equivalent to about 1481.5, 1851.9, or 2057.6 m depending on the league used.
Similar: Portuguese mile, mile

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@misc{milha_2026,
  title = {milha},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/milha},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}