miliardo
Esperanto edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
miliardo (accusative singular miliardon, plural miliardoj, accusative plural miliardojn)
- billion (109)
Usage notes edit
- Not as common as the expression mil milionoj. In Esperanto, numbers of a million and larger are treated as nouns and are declined as such, using the preposition da when modifying another noun, e.g. mil milionoj da dolaroj.
Derived terms edit
- miliardulo (“billionaire”)
Italian edit
10,000,000,000 (1010)[a], [b] | ||||
[a], [b] ← 1,000,000 (106) | [a], [b] ← 100,000,000 (108) | 1,000,000,000 (109) | 2,000,000,000 (2 x 109) → [a], [b] | 10,000,000,000 (1010) → [a], [b] |
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Cardinal: un miliardo, unmiliardo Ordinal: miliardesimo | ||||
Italian Wikipedia article on 1,000,000,000 (109) |
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French milliard, from a change in suffix of million.
Pronunciation edit
Numeral edit
miliardo m (plural miliardi)
- billion (109)
Usage notes edit
- One billion is normally written un miliardo or unmiliardo.
- Multiples are often written as two words, e.g. due miliardi (“two billion”).
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- miliardo on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
- miliardo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana