-illion

English Etymology en :bf million 1 en million, then used in en billion, en trillion, en quadrillion, each from en fr -, ultimately from Italian it mille thousand and the augmentative suffix it -one. fr -illion was segmented from million as if mi- was a prefix, and -illion the stem. Suffix numeral-forming suffixes Combined with Latin prefixes for names of integers in order to form names of powers of a million. en bi- billion en tri- trillion Added to various nonsense syllables to indicate an arbitrarily very large number. en bajillion, gazillion Usage notes The words formed with this suffix may mean either or in different nations and languages. Hence en billion can mean “one million million” or “one thousand million”. See Long and short scales Derived terms en -illion Related terms en -illiard Translations suffix forming names of powers of a million or of a thousand greater than 1,000,000 Armenian: hy -իլիոն Crimean Tatar: crh -ilon sextillion, crh -ard billion, crh -illion everything else Esperanto: eo -iliono French: fr -illion Polish: pl -ilion m Russian: ru -ард billion, ru -иллион everything else Turkish: tr -ar billion, tr -ilyon everything else See also Indefinite and fictitious numbers French Etymology fr :bf million fr million, ultimately from Italian it mille thousand and the augmentative suffix it -one. fr -illion was segmented from million as if mi- was a prefix, and -illion the stem. Pronunciation [ll:l] Suffix m en -illion Derived terms fr Related terms fr -illiard fr numeral-forming suffixes