billón
See also: billon
Asturian
editPronunciation
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editbillón m sg or f sg (plural billones)
- trillion; 1012
Spanish
edit← 1,000,000 (106) | [a], [b] ← 1,000,000,000 (109) | 1012 | 1018 → | |
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Cardinal: un billón Ordinal: billonésimo Fractional: billonésimo | ||||
Spanish Wikipedia article on 1012 |
Pronunciation
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Noun
editbillón m (plural billones)
- (cardinal number) trillion (1012)
- (obsolete, except in the US, Philippines) billion (109)
Usage notes
edit- Outside of Spanish spoken in the United States, billón is a false friend, and does not mean billion. The Spanish word for billion is mil millones.
Further reading
edit- “billón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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