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billiard en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ˈbɪlɪəd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈbɪl.i.ə(ɹ)d/
Etymology
From French billard with the insertion of the second i and orthographic representation of the French palatalized /j/ sound, 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”).
Meanings
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A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.
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(attributive) Pertaining to the game of billiards.
a billiard table; a billiard ball
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A dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary.
Forms
Deriveds
billiard table · billiard ball · billiard green · billiard room
Translations (2)
fr carambole (a shot in billiards or snooker) · fi kara (a shot in billiards or snooker)
billiard en · NUM · etymology 2
Pronunciation
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
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Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu.
Proto-Indo-European *dwís
Proto-Italic *dwis
Old Latin duis
Latin bisder.
French bi-
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂
Proto-Indo-European *smih₂
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes-
Proto-Indo-European *-lom
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslom
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Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslih₂
Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂
Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī
Latin mīlle
Italian mille
Proto-Indo-European *-ōder.
Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.?
Latin -ōnem
Italian -one
Italian milionebor.
Old French million
Middle French million
French million
Proto-Indo-European *kret-der.?
Proto-Germanic *harduz
Frankish *-hardbor.
Old French -art
Middle French [Term?]
French -ard
French milliardbf.
French -illiard
French billiardbor.
English billiard
From French billiard, equivalent to bi- (“two”) + -illiard.
Meanings
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(UK, rare) 10¹⁵, a thousand billion (long scale) or a million milliard.
Forms
Relateds
Previous: billion. Next: trillion. · 1015 = 1 (Symbolic) · 000 (Symbolic)
Synonyms
1015 (a short scale quadrillion)
Translations (4)
es billardo (a million milliards — see also quadrillion) · fi biljardi (a million milliards — see also quadrillion) · fr billiard (a million milliards — see also quadrillion) · de Billiarde (a million milliards — see also quadrillion)