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Definitions: Ilium |
IliumNoun1. An ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War. 2. The upper and widest of the three bones making up the hipbone. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Ilium" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
Synonyms: IliumSynonyms: Ilion (n), Troy (n). (additional references) |
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There is also a band called Ilium.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ilium."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
The Past | Phrase: time was; the time has been, the time hath been; you can't go home again; fuimus Troes; fruit Ilium; hoc erat in more majorum; "O call back yesterday, bid time return"; tempi passati; "the eternal landscape of the past"; ultimus Romanorum; "what's past is prologue"; "whose yesterdays look backward with a smile". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ilium |
| English words defined with "Ilium": Antitrochanter, arteria circumflexa ilium ♦ hipbone ♦ iliac, Iliac crest, Ilial, Ilio-, Iliofemoral, innominate bone, ischial bone, ischium ♦ liad ♦ os ischii ♦ Pelvic arch, Pelvic girdle, Poupart's ligament ♦ Supra-ilium ♦ vena circumflexa ilium. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Ilium": Flank Pain ♦ Sacroiliac Joint. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ilium" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Latin (Troy). |
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| Author | Quotation |
Aeschylus | She [Helen] brought to Ilium her dowry, destruction. |
Homer | He [Thersites] was the ugliest man who came to Ilium. |
Virgil | O fatherland, O Ilium home of the gods, O Troy walls famed in battle! |
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| "Ilium" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Ilium" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Ilium": arteria circumflexa ilium ♦ vena circumflexa ilium. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Ilium": Supra-ilium. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ilium | 48 |
ilium software | 8 |
ilium stanabolic | 6 |
ilium philips | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Ilium"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | слабинна кост. (various references) | |
Danish | ilium, ilion. (various references) | |
Dutch | os ilium, darmbeen. (various references) | |
Farsi | حرقفه , استخوان حرقفی . (various references) | |
Finnish | lonkkaluu (hip bone, hipbone, pin bone). (various references) | |
French | ilion. (various references) | |
German | Hüfte (haunch, hip, pelvis). (various references) | |
Greek | άνω μέροσ του ισχυακού οστού, λαγόνιο οστό, λαγόνιο (epipleurals, hip bone, pin bone, pin bones). (various references) | |
Italian | ilio. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iliumay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ilíaco (iliac), osso ilíaco (huckster, pelvic bone), ílio (ileo..., ilio...). (various references) | |
Russian | подвздошная кость. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | karlična kost. (various references) | |
Spanish | ilion, ílion. (various references) | |
Swedish | tarmben. (various references) | |
Thai | กระ"ูกเชิงกราน. (various references) | |
Turkish | karnın yan tarafı, kalça kemiği (femur, hipbone, huckle-bone, thighbone), böğür (flank, side). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ilia, ilionas. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "Ilium": cilium, milium, reptilium, sedilium. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-l-m-u" | |
-2 letters: lum, mil. | |
-3 letters: li, mi, mu, um. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-i-l-m-u" | |
+1 letter: cilium, limuli, milieu, milium. | |
+2 letters: bulimia, bulimic, lithium, milieus, milieux, stimuli. | |
+3 letters: aluminic, bulimiac, bulimias, bulimics, delirium, diluvium, fulminic, humility, illinium, illumine, illuming, illuvium, limuloid, lithiums, lixivium, luminism, luminist, miauling, millilux, minutial, misbuild, misbuilt, multifid, pugilism, sedilium, silicium, trillium, umbilici. | |
+4 letters: aluminium, aluminize, deliriums, diluviums, fulmining, humiliate, illiniums, illumined, illumines, illuviums, impiously, impulsing, impulsion, impulsive, limousine, limuloids, lixiviums, luminaire, luminaria, luminisms, luminists, malicious, miniscule, misbuilds, misruling, multicity, multigrid, multiline, multipion, multisite, multisize, multiunit, municipal, pollinium, puerilism, pugilisms, quicklime, quitclaim, reptilium, ritualism, semifluid, siliciums, spirillum, subliming, sublimity, trifolium, trilliums, umbilical, umbilicus, unlimited, unsmiling. | |
+5 letters: aluminiums, aluminized, aluminizes, delphinium, displuming, disulfiram, emulsified, emulsifier, emulsifies, epithelium, gadolinium, glochidium, humiliated, humiliates, humilities, illuminant, illuminate, illuminati, illumining, illuminism, illuminist, impulsions, insularism, limousines, luminaires, luminarias, luminaries, luminosity, millennium, millicurie, milliluces, milliluxes, miniscules, misvaluing, muliebrity, mullioning, multiaxial, multichain, multicurie, multigenic, multigrain, multimedia, multipiece, multiplied, multiplier, multiplies, multisided, multiunion, municipals, musicalise, musicality, musicalize, musicianly, mutability, mutilating, mutilation, outsmiling, puerilisms, quicklimes, quitclaims, relumining, ritualisms, semifluids, semiliquid, semipublic, similitude, simulating, simulation, simulative, subliminal, subminimal, triclinium, trifoliums, turmoiling, ultimacies, ultimating, umbilicals, umbilicate, unfamiliar, unmilitary, unmingling, untimelier, upclimbing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6C 69 75 6D |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. .-.. .. ..- -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101100 01101001 01110101 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I l i u m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006C 0069 0075 006D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4378758779 |
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