English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Suffix
[edit]-illion
- Combined with Latin prefixes for names of integers in order to form names of powers of a million.
- Added to various nonsense syllables to indicate an arbitrarily very large number.
Usage notes
[edit]- The words formed with this suffix may mean either 👁 {\displaystyle 1,000,000^{n}}
or 👁 {\displaystyle 1000^{n+1}}
in different nations and languages. Hence billion can mean “one million million” or “one thousand million”. See 👁 Image
Long and short scales on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]suffix forming names of powers of a million or of a thousand greater than 1,000,000
See also
[edit]- 👁 Image
Indefinite and fictitious numbers on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back-formation from million, 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.
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-illion m (noun-forming suffix, plural -illions)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
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