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Myria is an obsolete prefix in the SI system of units that denoted a factor of 10+4 (ten thousand, 10,000). Its symbol was ma.
The prefix came from the Greek μύριοι, meaning both ten thousand and "an indefinite large number". There is no Latin equivalent. Adopted in 1795, it was not retained when the prefixes were nailed down by the 11th CGPM in 1960.
It is still sometimes used a prefix for constructing words:
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