Roman mile

English

Etymology

Roman + mile

Noun

Roman mile (plural Roman miles)

1. An ancient Roman unit of itinerant distance of 1000 paces (mille passus, hence also "mile" from Latin mille, "1000"). Indirectly standardized to 5000 Roman feet by Agrippa in 29 BC. In modern times, Agrippa's Imperial Roman mile is empirically estimated to have been around 1481 meters (1620 yards, 4860 English feet, 0.92 English miles); compared with a modern mile, which is 5280 feet.

   • Itinerant definition

     Habitually travelling from place to place.

   • Mille Passus definition

     a Roman mile of 8 stadia (“stades”); 1,000 passūs (“paces”); or 5,000 pedēs (“feet”), approximately 4,854 English feet.

   • Meter definition

     A device that measures things.

     1. A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment. (1 of 7 meter definitions)

   • Yard definition

     A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building. (1 of 5 yard definitions)

   • Mile definition

     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. (1 of 9 mile definitions)

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