ミリ (メートル)
ミリ (メートル) · miri (meetoru) · JLPT N2 · noun
milli-
📏 ミリ = milli: 1/1000 of a metre, so a millimetre is a thousandth of a metre
ミリ comes from Latin 'mille', meaning thousand. A millimetre (ミリメートル) is one thousandth of a metre, so 'milli-' always signals a factor of one thousandth.