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milium

millet

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Where it lives

Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6 · 0.76/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Naturalis Historia 26 · 0.66/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
De Medicina 3 · 0.29/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

1. milium — de Vaan

milium 'millet' [n. o] (Cato+) Derivatives:'miliaria 'bird fattened for eating, ortolan; dodder' (Varro+). Pit, *meljo-T PIE *melh2-i [n.]? IE cognates: Gr. μελΐνη [f.] 'millet', Lith. malnos fi pi. 'kind of millet'. If from *meliom with /-mutation (of the type nihil, similis), milium can be cognate with Gr. μελΐνη. The Latin, Gr, and Lith, words could be independent derivatives of *melh2- 'to grind' (e-grade in Gr. … — [de Vaan, s.v. milium, p. 393]

2. mĭlĭum — Lewis & Short

mĭlĭum, ii, n.,

I millet, Varr. R. R. 1, 57, 2; Verg. G. 1, 216; Plin. 18, 30, 73, § 304; 18, 10, 24, § 100.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. milium (scan p. 393; entry #1049). Root candidates: *melh2-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. milium (scan pp. 144-145; entry #2152).

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