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miliary (MIL-ee-er-ee, MIL-yeh-ree) - adj., of or pertaining to millet seeds; small and numerous, (med.) having many small lesions are the shape and size of millet seeds.
So no, not a typo for military. From Latin miliārius, of millet, from milium, millet. It's a little unclear, but it looks like the medical meaning developed in Medieval Latin and ported over (as Middle English miliaris, the name for a disease so characterized) as a separate import from the other senses, which arrived around 1680.
---L.
So no, not a typo for military. From Latin miliārius, of millet, from milium, millet. It's a little unclear, but it looks like the medical meaning developed in Medieval Latin and ported over (as Middle English miliaris, the name for a disease so characterized) as a separate import from the other senses, which arrived around 1680.
---L.
