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[M 词源字典]
13th letter, from Greek
mu
, from Semitic
mem
. The Roman symbol for 1,000; sometimes used in this sense in English 15c.-16c.; but in late 20c. newspaper headlines it stands for
million
. As a thickness of type, from 1680s.
[M etymology, M origin, 英语词源]