billiard

See also: billiárd and Billiard

English

Etymology 1

From French billard, originally referring to the wooden cue stick, diminutive of Old French bille (“log, tree trunk”), from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile (“large tree, tree trunk”)), from Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yos (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɪl.i.ə(ɹ)d/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

billiard (plural billiards)

1. A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.
2. (attributive) Pertaining to the game of billiards.

   a billiard table; a billiard ball

3. A dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary.

Derived terms

• billiard ball
• billiard room
• billiard table

Translations

a shot in billiards or snooker

• Finnish: kara (fi)
• French: carambole (fr) f (only in french billiard, a.k.a. carambole)

Etymology 2

From French billiard, equivalent to bi- (“two”) +‎ -illiard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɪl.i.ɑː(ɹ)d/

Numeral

billiard (plural billiards)

1. (British, rare) 10¹⁵, a thousand billion (long scale) or a million milliard.

Synonyms

• (10¹⁵): a short scale quadrillion

Translations

a million milliards — see also quadrillion

• Finnish: biljardi (fi)
• French: billiard (fr) m
• German: Billiarde (de) f
• Spanish: billardo m

See also

• Previous: billion. Next: trillion.
• Symbolic: 10¹⁵ = 1,000,000,000,000,000

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [biliˈɑˀd]

Noun

billiard c (singular definite billiarden, plural indefinite billiarder)

1. 10¹⁵

Declension

Declension of billiard

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	billiard	billiarden	billiarder	billiarderne
genitive	billiards	billiardens	billiarders	billiardernes

References

• “billiard” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

French numbers ^(edit)

←  1,000,000,000 (109)	[a], [b] ←  1012	1015	1018  → [a], [b]	1021  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: un billiard, un million de milliards     Ordinal: billiardième, millionième de milliardième
French Wikipedia article on 1015

Etymology

From bi- (“two”) +‎ -illiard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.ljaʁ/

• Audio:

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Numeral

billiard m (plural billiards)

1. quadrillion (10¹⁵)