milenio

/miˈlenjo/ · B2 · noun · m

millennium

📅 milenio = mil (thousand) + anio (year), a thousand-year span

Spanish milenio comes from Latin mille (thousand) + annus (year). Spot mil, as in mil (1,000), and the -enio ending, linked to año, to recall a period of one thousand years.

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