millón
Asturian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /miˈʎon/ [miˈʎõŋ]
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: mi‧llón
Numeral
millón m sg or f sg (feminine plural millones)
- million; 1,000,000
- un millón llobos — one million wolves
- un millón vaques — one million cows
- dos millones llobos — two million wolves
- dos millones vaques — two million cows
Galician
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /miˈɟoŋ/ [miˈɟoŋ]
- Rhymes: -oŋ
- Hyphenation: mi‧llón
Noun
millón m (plural millóns)
Spanish
| 10,000,000 (107) | ||||
| ← 100,000 | ← 200,000 | 1,000,000 (106) | 2,000,000 (2 × 106) → | 10,000,000 (107) → |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100,000 | ||||
| Cardinal: un millón Ordinal: millonésimo Ordinal abbreviation: 1 000 000.º Fractional: millonésimo | ||||
| Spanish Wikipedia article on 1,000,000 (106) | ||||
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian milione, replacing earlier cuento (“one million”), from Latin computus (“computation, calculation; count”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /miˈʝon/ [miˈʝõn] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /miˈʎon/ [miˈʎõn] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /miˈʃon/ [miˈʃõn] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /miˈʒon/ [miˈʒõn] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: mi‧llón
Noun
millón m (plural millones)
- (cardinal number) million (106)
- Synonym: cuento (obsolete)
- 2025 July 1, Jennifer Hansler and Deidre McPhillips, “Rubio celebra el fin de USAID y un estudio dice que su eliminación contribuiría a millones de muertes en los próximos 5 años”, in CNN en Español[1]:
- Un estudio publicado el lunes en The Lancet estima que los recortes de financiación de USAID podrían causar más de 14 millones de muertes adicionales para 2030.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “millón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024