Source Word
Roman mile
Noun
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.
Japanese Meaning
古代ローマにおける、1000歩（mille passus）に基づく旅程距離単位。 / 紀元前29年にアグリッパによって、5000ローマ尺として標準化された（間接的な標準化）。 / 現代の換算では約1481メートルに相当する。
Sense（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.
（ plural ）
