million

See also: Million

EnglishEdit

English numbers (edit)
←  1,000 [a], [b] ←  100,000 1,000,000 (106) 10,000,000 (107)  → [a], [b] 1,000,000,000 (109)  → [a], [b], [c]
    Cardinal: million
    Ordinal: millionth
    Multiplier: millionfold
    Metric collective prefix: mega-
    Metric fractional prefix: micro-
    Number of years: millionennium, megannum, megayear

EtymologyEdit

From Old French, from Italian milione (million), from mille (thousand) (from Latin mille) + the augmentative suffix -one. Compare -illion.

PronunciationEdit

  • enPR: mĭl′yən, IPA(key): /ˈmɪljən/, [ˈmɪljɪn]
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  • Rhymes: -ɪljən
  • Hyphenation: mil‧lion

NumeralEdit

million (plural millions)

  1. (long and short scales) The cardinal number 1,000,000: 106; a thousand thousand.
  2. (colloquial, hyperbolic) An unspecified very large number.
    I told you a million times before.
    I can think of millions of reasons not to go.

Usage notesEdit

Until the early 20th century, million behaved much like an ordinary quantificational noun (such as pair or handful). That is, it inflected in the plural when modified by a numeral greater than 1, and was separated from the noun it quantified with of, as in: five millions of pounds (rather than the modern equivalent, five million pounds).

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Crimean TatarEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French million.

NumeralEdit

million

  1. million

DeclensionEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed via French million from Italian milione.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [miliˈoˀn], [milˈjoˀn]

NumeralEdit

million

  1. A million, 106.

NounEdit

million c (singular definite millionen, plural indefinite millioner)

  1. a million

ReferencesEdit

FrenchEdit

French numbers (edit)
←  1,000 [a], [b] ←  100,000 1,000,000 (106) 2,000,000 (2 x 106)  → [a], [b] 1,000,000,000 (109)  →
    Cardinal (traditional spelling): un million
    Cardinal (post-1990 spelling): un-million
    Ordinal: millionième
    Ordinal abbreviation: 1 000 000e, (now nonstandard) 1 000 000ème
French Wikipedia article on 1,000,000 (106)

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Middle French million, from Italian milione.

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

million m (plural millions)

  1. million (106)

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InterlinguaEdit

NounEdit

million (plural milliones)

  1. million
    • 2012, Panorama in Interlingua, September-October, p. 24:
      Le anno passate 46 milliones statouniteses esseva povre.
      Last year 46 million U.S. Americans were poor.

NumeralEdit

un million

  1. a million, one million

Middle FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

NounEdit

million m (plural millions)

  1. million, 106.

DescendantsEdit

Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Italian milione.

NumeralEdit

million

  1. A million, 106.

NounEdit

million m (definite singular millionen, indefinite plural millioner, definite plural millionene)

  1. a million

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Italian milione.

NumeralEdit

million

  1. a million, 106.

NounEdit

million m (definite singular millionen, indefinite plural millionar, definite plural millionane)

  1. a million

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SwedishEdit

NounEdit

million c

  1. Obsolete spelling of miljon

DeclensionEdit

Declension of million 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative million millionen millioner millionerna
Genitive millions millionens millioners millionernas

TatarEdit

NumeralEdit

million (Cyrillic spelling миллион)

  1. million

UzbekEdit

NumeralEdit

million

  1. million

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