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-illion en · X

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle English milioun English millionbf. English -illion Back-formation from million, then used in billion, trillion, quadrillion, each from French, ultimately from Italian mille (“thousand”) and the augmentative suffix -one. -illion was segmented from million as if mi- was a prefix, and -illion the stem.

Meanings

  1. (morpheme) Combined with Latin prefixes for names of integers in order to form names of powers of a million.
    • tri- + -illion → trillion
    • bi- + -illion → billion
  2. (morpheme) Added to various nonsense syllables to indicate an arbitrarily very large number.
    • bajillion, gazillion

Relateds

-illiard

Translations (11)

eo -iliono (suffix forming names of powers of a million or of a thousand greater than 1,000,000) · tr -ilyon (suffix forming names of powers of a million or of a thousand greater than 1,000,000) · crh -ard (suffix forming names of powers of a million or of a thousand greater than 1,000,000) · ru -ард (suffix forming names of powers of a million or of a thousand greater than 1,000,000) · fr -illion (suffix forming names of powers of a million or of a thousand greater than 1,000,000) · tr -ar (suffix forming names of powers of a million or of a thousand greater than 1,000,000) · ru -иллион (suffix forming names of powers of a million or of a thousand greater than 1,000,000) · crh -ilon (suffix forming names of powers of a million or of a thousand greater than 1,000,000) · hy -իլիոն (suffix forming names of powers of a million or of a thousand greater than 1,000,000) · pl -ilion (suffix forming names of powers of a million or of a thousand greater than 1,000,000) · crh -illion (suffix forming names of powers of a million or of a thousand greater than 1,000,000)