milhão

Portuguese

Portuguese numbers (edit)
 ←  1,000  ←  100,000 1,000,000 (106) 10,000,000 (107)  →  1,000,000,000 (109)  → [a], [b]
    Cardinal: um milhão
    Ordinal: milionésimo
    Ordinal abbreviation: 1.000.000.º, 1.000.000º
    Fractional: milionésimo, um milhão avos
Portuguese Wikipedia article on 1,000,000 (106)

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /miˈʎɐ̃w̃/ [miˈʎɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

  • Audio (Northern Portugal):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
  • Hyphenation: mi‧lhão

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian milione.

Noun

milhão m (plural milhões)

  1. million (106)
    Coordinate terms: um (“100”), mil (“103”), milhão (“106”), bilião / bilhão (“109”), trilião / trilhão (“1012”) — short scale
    Coordinate terms: um (“100”), mil (“103”), milhão (“106”), mil milhões (“109”), bilião / bilhão (“1012”) — long scale

Etymology 2

From milho (“corn”) +‎ -ão.

Noun

milhão m (plural milhões)

  1. a type corn with a tall and large kernels

Further reading

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