mīllēnus

Meaning

1. in pluralnumeralone thousand each; one thousand at a time
   qui enim verbi gratia quinque milium [a]eris patrimonium habebat, poterat quinque hominibus singulis millenos asses legando totum patrimonium erogare.1874 translation by J. T. Abdy and Bryan Walker For a man who had, for instance, a patrimony of five thousand asses, could expend his whole patrimony by bequeathing a thousand asses to each of five men.c. 160 CE, Gaius, Institutiones 2.225.7

Declension

Origins

From mīlle (“thousand”) + -ēnus.