Translation
million
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Word origin
From Italian milione, literally a 'big thousand': mille ('thousand') with the augmentative ending -one. The bankers of mediaeval Italy needed the word, and every European language borrowed it from them.
- Origin
- Italian, from Latin mille
- Root
- milione
- English cognates
- million, mile
Examples
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Ten million people live in the country.
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The rich man has a million francs.
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A million is a thousand thousands.
Unlike and cent, is grammatically a noun: it takes -j and -n and links with , so , not .
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This word is taught in chapter 13, lesson 4: miliono, inteligenta, infero and 5 more words.