trilhão
Portuguese edit
| ← 1,000,000 (106) | [a], [b] ← 1,000,000,000 (109) | 1012 | 1015 → [a], [b], [c] | 1018 → [a], [b] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardinal (Brazil): um trilhão Cardinal (everywhere but Brazil): um bilião Ordinal (Brazil): trilionésimo Ordinal (Portugal): bilionésimo Fractional (Brazil): trilionésimo, um trilhão avos Fractional (Portugal): bilionésimo Fractional (everywhere but Brazil): um bilião avos | ||||
| Portuguese Wikipedia article on 1012 | ||||
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French trillion.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: tri‧lhão
Noun edit
trilhão m (plural trilhões)
- (Brazil, cardinal number) trillion (1012)
- Synonym: (Angola, Portugal) bilião
- (Portugal, informal, cardinal number) Synonym of trilião (“1018”)
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 1012 is expressed as um bilião in African and European Portuguese, but as um trilhão in Brazilian Portuguese.[1]
- The Angolan Government proscribes the use of long scale.[2]
- In Portugal, the alternative um trilhão (“one quadrillion, 1018”) is an informal spelling of the preferred and proscribed um trilião.[3]
References edit
- ^ bilião e outros grandes números in FLiP - Dúvida Linguística
- ^ Angola padroniza a escrita e a leitura dos grandes números in Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa
- ^ “trilhão” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.