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  • millieme
    millieme
    noun
    a cupronickel coin of Egypt and Sudan, the 1000th part of a pound or the 10th part of a piaster.
  • millième
    millième
    noun
    an Egyptian monetary unit worth one thousandth of a lira

millieme

American  
[meel-yem, mee-yem] / milˈjɛm, miˈjɛm /

noun

  1. a cupronickel coin of Egypt and Sudan, the 1000th part of a pound or the 10th part of a piaster.

  2. a former coin and monetary unit of Libya, the 1000th part of a pound: replaced by the dirham.


millieme 1 British  
/ miːlˈjɛm /

noun

  1. Also called: millime.  a Tunisian monetary unit worth one thousandth of a dinar

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

millième 2 British  
/ miːlˈjɛm /

noun

  1. an Egyptian monetary unit worth one thousandth of a lira

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of millieme

1900–05; < French millième ≪ Latin millēsimus thousandth, equivalent to mille thousand + -ēsimus ordinal suffix

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