bilhão
Portuguese
edit← 1,000,000 (106) | ← 100,000,000 (108) | 1,000,000,000 (109) | 1012 → [a], [b] | 1015 → [a], [b], [c] |
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Cardinal (Brazil): um bilhão Cardinal (everywhere but Brazil): mil milhões Ordinal (Brazil): bilionésimo Ordinal (Portugal): milésimo milionésimo, milésimo de milionésimo Fractional (Brazil): bilionésimo, um bilhão avos Fractional (Portugal): milésimo milionésimo, milésimo de milionésimo Fractional (everywhere but Brazil): mil milhões avos | ||||
Portuguese Wikipedia article on 1,000,000,000 (109) |
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: bi‧lhão
Etymology 1
editBorrowed from French billion.[1][2]
Noun
editbilhão m (plural bilhões)
- (Brazil, cardinal number) billion (109)
- (Portugal, informal, cardinal number) Synonym of bilião (“1012”)
Usage notes
edit- Portuguese-speaking countries follow the traditional long scale, with the exception of Brazil which adopted the short scale used in the UK and US. The number 109 is expressed as mil milhões (literally “one thousand million”) in African and European Portuguese, but as um bilhão in Brazilian Portuguese.[3]
- The Angolan Government proscribes the use of long scale.[4]
- In Portugal, the alternative um bilhão (“one trillion, 1012”) is an informal spelling of the preferred and proscribed um bilião.
Quotations
editFor quotations using this term, see Citations:bilhão.
Etymology 2
editBorrowed from French billon.[1][2]
Noun
editbilhão m (plural bilhões)
References
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “bilhão”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “bilhão”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
- ^ bilião e outros grandes números in FLiP - Dúvida Linguística
- ^ Angola padroniza a escrita e a leitura dos grandes números in Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa
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