Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards. · Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values. · Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet. · The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
From Middle English myle, mile, from Old English mīl, from Proto-West Germanic *mīliju, a borrowing of Latin mīlia, mīllia, plural of mīle, mīlle (“mile”) (literally ‘thousand’ but used as a short form of mīlle passūs (“a thousand paces”)).
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