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Translation

million

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

milionoj .

Ten million people live in the country.

milionon .

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 milionoj , not .

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This word is part of lesson 23.