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Portuguese
Portuguese numbers (edit)
| ← 1,000,000 (106)
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← 100,000,000 (108)
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1,000,000,000 (109)
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1012 → ,
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1015 → , ,
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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
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French billion.[1][2]
Noun
bilhão m (plural bilhões)
- (Brazil, cardinal number) billion (109)
- Synonym: (Angola, Portugal) mil milhões
- (Portugal, informal, cardinal number) Synonym of bilião (“1012”)
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 proscribes the use of long scale.[4]
- In Portugal, the alternative um bilhão (“one trillion, 1012”) is an informal spelling of the preferred and proscribed um bilião.
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:bilhão.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French billon.[1][2]
Noun
bilhão m (plural bilhões)
- billon
References