bilhão

Portuguese

Portuguese numbers (edit)
 ←  1,000,000 (106)  ←  100,000,000 (108) 1,000,000,000 (109) 1012  → [a], [b] 1015  → [a], [b], [c]
    Cardinal (Brazil): um bilhão
    Cardinal (everywhere but Brazil): mil milhões
    Ordinal (Brazil): bilionésimo
    Ordinal (Portugal): milésimo milionésimo, milésimo de milionésimo
    Fractional (Brazil): bilionésimo, um bilhão avos
    Fractional (Portugal): milésimo milionésimo, milésimo de milionésimo
    Fractional (everywhere but Brazil): mil milhões avos
Portuguese Wikipedia article on 1,000,000,000 (109)

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /biˈʎɐ̃w̃/ [biˈʎɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /biˈʎɐ̃w̃/, /bɨˈʎɐ̃w̃/

  • Hyphenation: bi‧lhão

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French billion.[1][2]

Noun

bilhão m (plural bilhões)

  1. (Brazil, cardinal number, short scale) billion (109)
    Synonym: (Angola, Portugal) mil milhões (“109”)
    Coordinate terms: mil (“103”), milhão (“106”), bilhão (“109”), trilhão (“1012”), quadrilhão / quatrilhão (“1015”) — short scale
  2. (Portugal, informal, cardinal number, long scale) alternative form of bilião (“1012”)
    Synonym: (Brazil) trilhão (“1012”)
    Coordinate terms: milhão (“106”), mil milhões (“109”), bilhão (“1012”), mil bilhões (“1015”), trilhão (“1018”) — long scale, informal
  3. (colloquial, hyperbolic) billion (an unspecified very large number)
Usage notes
  • Portuguese-speaking countries follow the traditional long scale, with the exception of Brazil, which adopted the short scale used in the UK and US. The number 109 is expressed as mil milhões (literally “one thousand million”) in African and European Portuguese, but as um bilhão in Brazilian Portuguese.[3]
  • The Angolan Government prescribes the use of long scale.[4]
  • In Portugal, the alternative um bilhão (“one trillion, 1012”) is an informal form of the preferred and prescribed um bilião.
Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:bilhão.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French billon.[1][2]

Noun

bilhão m (plural bilhões)

  1. billon

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “bilhão”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 “bilhão”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
  3. ^ bilião e outros grandes números in FLiP - Dúvida Linguística
  4. ^ Angola padroniza a escrita e a leitura dos grandes números in Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa
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