milla

English or American mile (a unit of distance equivalent to about 1.6 km); milla, Spanish mile (a traditional unit of distance equivalent to 1,000 pasos, about 1.4 km)

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin mīlia (“Roman mile”), plural of mīlle (“thousand”) in reference to its composition of a thousand Roman paces. In reference to the English unit, calqued from English mile. Cognate with Catalan milla and Portuguese milha.