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Millennium

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means a period of one thousand years
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Stage 1 of 2
mille
Latin · ancient
"a thousand"
a thousand, combined with annus (year)
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Stage 2 of 2
millennium
English · 1630s
"a period of one thousand years"
settled as the English word for a period of one thousand years
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