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milligram (n.)[milligram 词源字典]: also milligramme, 1802, from French milligramme; see milli- + gram.[milligram etymology, milligram origin, 英语词源]
milliliter (n.): also millilitre, 1802, from French millilitre; see milli- + liter.
millimeter (n.): also millimetre, 1802, from French millimetre; see milli- + meter (n.2).
milliner (n.): mid-15c., "vendor of fancy wares, especially those made in Milan," Italian city, famous for straw works, fancy goods, ribbons, bonnets, and cutlery. Meaning "one who sells women's hats" may be from 1520s, certainly by 18c. (it is difficult in early references to know whether the word means a type of merchant or "a resident of Milan" who is selling certain wares).
millinery (n.): 1670s; see milliner + -y (1).
milling (n.): "act or business of grinding in a mill," mid-15c., verbal noun from mill (v.1).
million (n.): late 14c., from Old French million (late 13c.), from Italian millione (now milione), literally "a great thousand," augmentative of mille "thousand," from Latin mille, which is of uncertain origin. Used mainly by mathematicians until 16c. India, with its love of large numbers, had names before 3c. for numbers well beyond a billion. The ancient Greeks had no name for a number greater than ten thousand, the Romans for none higher than a hundred thousand. "A million" in Latin would have been decies centena milia, literally "ten hundred thousand." Million to one as a type of "long odds" is attested from 1761. Related: Millions.
millionaire (n.): 1821, from French millionnaire (1762); see million. The first in America is said to have been John Jacob Astor (1763-1848).
millionfold: 1721, from million + -fold.
millionth (adj.): 1670s, from million + -th (1).
millipede (n.): also millepede, c. 1600, from Latin millepeda "wood louse," a type of crawling insect, from mille "thousand" (see million) + pes (genitive pedis) "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)). Probably a loan-translation of Greek chiliopous.
millisecond (n.): "one thousandth of a second," 1922, from milli- + second (n.).
millstone (n.): Old English mylenstan, from mill (n.1) + stone (n.). Figurative sense of "a burden" (1720) is from Matt. xviii:6.
millstream (n.): Old English mylestream; see mill (n.1) + stream (n.).
millwork (n.): 1770, from mill (n.1) + work (n.).
millwright (n.): late 15c., from mill (n.1) + wright.
milquetoast (n.): "timid, meek person," 1938, from Caspar Milquetoast, character created by U.S. newspaper cartoonist H.T. Webster (1885-1952) in the strip "The Timid Soul," which ran from 1924 in the "New York World" and later the "Herald Tribune." By 1930 the name was being referenced as a type of the meek man. The form seems to be milktoast with an added French twist; also see milksop.
milt (n.): Old English milte "spleen," from Proto-Germanic *miltjo- (cognates: Old Frisian milte, Middle Dutch milte, Dutch milt "spleen, milt of fish," Old High German milzi, German milz, Old Norse milti). Meaning "fish sperm" is late 15c.
mime (n.): c. 1600, "a buffoon who practices gesticulations" [Johnson], from French mime (16c.) and directly from Latin mimus, from Greek mimos "imitator, mimic, actor, mime, buffoon," of unknown origin. In reference to a performance, 1640s in a classical context; 1932 as "a pantomime."
mime (v.): 1610s, "to act without words," from mime (n.). The transferred sense of "to imitate" is from 1733 (Greek mimeisthai meant "to imitate"). Meaning "to pretend to be singing a pre-recorded song" is from 1965. Related: mimed; miming.