different between million vs trillion

English

Etymology

From Old French, from Italian milione (“million”), from mille (“thousand”) (from Latin mille) + the augmentative suffix -one. ·illion is a base extracted from million, as million is morphologically simple, the variant of ·illion when there is no prefix.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?l?y?n, IPA^(key): /?m?lj?n/, [?m???n]
• Rhymes: -?lj?n
• Hyphenation: mil?lion

Numeral

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 notes

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).

Derived terms

Related terms

• thousand
• billion
• trillion

Descendants

• ? Hawaiian: miliona
• ? Maori: miriona
• ? Sinhalese: ??????? (miliyanaya)
• ? Welsh: miliwn

Translations

See also

• (short scale) Previous: thousand. Next: billion
• (long scale) Previous: thousand. Next: milliard
• (Ordinal) millionth
• ISO prefix: mega-
• mega

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From French million.

Numeral

million

1. million

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed via French million from Italian milione.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mili?o?n], [mil?jo?n]

Numeral

million

1. A million, 10⁶.

Noun

million c (singular definite millionen, plural indefinite millioner)

1. a million

References

• “million” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Middle French million, from Italian milione.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.lj??/

Numeral

million

1. million, 10⁶.

Coordinate terms

• Previous: mille, 10³
• Next: milliard, 10⁹

Derived terms

• millionnaire

Descendants

• ? Crimean Tatar: million

Further reading

• “million” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

million (plural milliones)

1. million
   • 2012, Panorama in Interlingua, September-October, p. 24:

Numeral

un million

1. a million, one million

Middle French

Etymology

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

Noun

million m (plural millions)

1. million, 10⁶.

Descendants

• French: million
  • ? Crimean Tatar: million
• ? Catalan: milió
• ? Dutch: miljoen
  • Afrikaans: miljoen
• ? English: million
  • ? Hawaiian: miliona
  • ? Maori: miriona
  • ? Sinhalese: ??????? (miliyanaya)
  • ? Welsh: miliwn
• ? Irish: milliún

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Italian milione

Numeral

million

1. A million, 10⁶.

Noun

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

1. a million

References

• “million” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Italian milione

Numeral

million

1. a million, 10⁶.

Noun

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

1. a million

References

• “million” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

million c

1. Obsolete spelling of miljon

Declension

Tatar

Numeral

million (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. million

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?l'y?n, IPA^(key): /?t??lj?n/
• Rhymes: -?lj?n

Etymology 1

From French trillion, from tri- (“three”) +? -illion.

Numeral

trillion (plural trillions)

1. (US, modern Britain, Australia, short scale) A million million: 1 followed by twelve zeros, 10¹².
2. (dated Britain, Australia, long scale) A million million million: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 10¹⁸.

Synonyms

• (10¹²): a long scale billion
• (10¹⁸): a short scale quintillion

Translations

See also

• (short scale) Previous: billion. Next: quadrillion
• (long scale) Previous: billiard. Next: trilliard
• (SI prefix): tera-

Etymology 2

Coined by Harvey Pollack, because of the way the numbers read across a basketball box score

Noun

trillion (plural trillions)

1. (basketball, slang) A statistic formed by a player playing some number of minutes, but recording no stats.

French

Etymology

From tri- (“three”) +? -illion, from million; i.e. a million million million.

Coined by Jehan Adam in 1475 as trimillion.Rendered as tryllion by Nicolas Chuquet in 1484, in his article “Triparty en la science des nombres”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?i.lj??/

Numeral

trillion

1. 10¹⁸; a long scale trillion; a short scale quintillion.

Usage notes

• Previous: billiard, 10¹⁵
• Next: trilliard, 10²¹

Related terms

• billion, coined at same time

Descendants

• ? Catalan: trilió

Further reading

• “trillion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Noun

trillion m (plural trillions)

1. trillion, 10¹⁸
   • 1520, Étienne de La Roche, L'arismethique novellement composee, page 6

     ung trillion vault mille milliers de billions

     a trillion is equivalent to a thousand thousands of billions

Tatar

Numeral

trillion (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. trillion (10¹²)

Declension