biliardo

Ido

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English billiardsFrench billardsGerman BillardItalian biliardoRussian билья́рд (bilʹjárd)Spanish billar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /biˈli̯ar.do/

Noun

biliardo (plural biliardi)

  1. (games) pool, billiards
Derived terms
  • biliard-bulo (pool ball, billiards ball)
  • biliardeyo (pool hall, billiards hall, pool room, billiards room)
  • biliardo-bastono (pool cue, billiards cue)
  • biliardo-tablo (pool table, billiards table)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English billiardFrench billiardGerman BilliardeItalian biliardoRussian биллиард (billiard)Spanish billardo. Considered derived from biliard +‎ -o, thus the special placement of the stress.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbi.li̯ar.do/

Noun

biliardo (plural biliardi)

  1. (cardinal number) quadrillion (1015)

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /biˈljar.do/
  • Rhymes: -ardo
  • Hyphenation: bi‧liàr‧do

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French billard.

Alternative forms

Noun

biliardo m (plural biliardi)

  1. (games, sports) billiards, pool
    giocare a biliardoto play pool
Descendants
  • Hijazi Arabic: بلياردو (bilyārdu)
  • Ottoman Turkish: بیلاردو (bilârdo), بیلیاردو (bilyardo), պիլարտօ (bilardo), պիլեարտօ (bilyardo)Armeno-Turkish

Further reading

  • biliardo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • biliardo on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it

Etymology 2

Italian numbers (edit)
[a], [b] ←  1012 [a], [b] ←  1014 1015 1018  → [a], [b] 1021  → [a], [b]
    Cardinal: un biliardo, unbiliardo
    Ordinal: biliardesimo

Borrowed from French billiard.

Numeral

biliardo m (plural biliardi)

  1. quadrillion (1015)
Usage notes
  • One quadrillion is normally written un biliardo or unbiliardo.
  • Multiples are often written as two words, e.g. due biliardi (two quadrillion).

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