milion

See also: milión and Milion

Czech

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɪlɪjon]
  • IPA(key): [ˈmɪlɪjoːn]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: mi‧lion

Noun

milion m inan

  1. million

Declension

Further reading

Esperanto

Noun

milion

  1. accusative singular of milio

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese milhão.

Numeral

milion

  1. million (1.000.000)

Occitan

Pronunciation

Numeral

milion (plural milions)

  1. million

Further reading

  • Joan de Cantalausa (2006), Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians[3], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 648

Polish

Polish numbers (edit)
 ←  1,000  ←  100,000 1,000,000 (106) 1,000,000,000 (109)  →  1012  → 
    Cardinal: milion
    Ordinal: milionowy

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Borrowed from French million.[1][2][3] First attested in 1538.[4]

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈmi.ljɔn/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -iljɔn
    • Syllabification: mi‧lion

    Noun

    milion m inan (diminutive milionik, related adjective milionowy, abbreviation mln or mil.)

    1. million (106)
      Synonyms: bańka, melon
    2. million (unspecified very large number)
      Synonym: mnóstwo
    3. herd (large group of people)

    Declension

    Derived terms

    verbs
    • wyglądać jak milion dolarów impf

    Trivia

    According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), milion is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 33 times in scientific texts, 97 times in news, 74 times in essays, 10 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 217 times, making it the 258th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

    References

    1. ^ Mirosław Bańko; Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021), “milion”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
    2. ^ Dubisz, Stanisław, editor (2003), “milion”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal Dictionary of the Polish Language]‎[1] (in Polish), volumes 1–4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, →ISBN, →OCLC
    3. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “milion”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
    4. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “milon, milijon”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
    5. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “milion”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[2] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 247

    Further reading

    Romanian

    Etymology

    Borrowed from French million.

    Pronunciation

    • Audio:(file)

    Noun

    milion n (plural milioane)

    1. million

    Declension

    singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative-accusative milion milionul milioane milioanele
    genitive-dative milion milionului milioane milioanelor
    vocative milionule milioanelor

    Serbo-Croatian

    Alternative forms

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /milǐoːn/
    • Hyphenation: mi‧li‧on

    Noun

    milìōn m inan (Cyrillic spelling милѝо̄н)

    1. million

    Declension

    Declension of milion
    singular plural
    nominative milion milioni
    genitive miliona miliona
    dative milionu milionima
    accusative milion milione
    vocative milione milioni
    locative milionu milionima
    instrumental milionom milionima