Noun: militia
| Singular | militia |
| Plural | militias; militiae |
Sample Sentences
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He coasts down to a dead stop in the middle of the channel, makes a scan for militia men and wireheads, and finds none. [1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 387:]
Nouns inflected like militia
palestra,
sarisa,
samara,
schola,
Banff Springs physa,
exumbrella,
bildungsroman,
turritella,
Sir David's long-beaked echidna,
comatula,
nanoantenna,
retinula,
pyrexia,
mesoamygdala,
planetary nebula,
saxicava,
Bildungsroman,
billboard antenna,
structural formula,
babesia, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Latin mīlitia (“army, military force/service”), from mīles (“soldier”). Doublet of militsia.
2. The use of "militia" rather than "police" to refer to the police force (of Belarus and some other countries) originated in the USSR. See: Latin Nouns '
mīlitia'.