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Portuguese
Portuguese numbers (edit)
| ← 1,000
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← 100,000
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1,000,000 (106)
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10,000,000 (107) →
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1,000,000,000 (109) → [a], [b]
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Cardinal: um milhão
Ordinal: milionésimo
Ordinal abbreviation: 1.000.000.º
Fractional: milionésimo, um milhão avos
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Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
- Hyphenation: mi‧lhão
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Italian milione.
Noun
milhão m (plural milhões)
- million (106)
Etymology 2
From milho (“corn”) + -ão.
Noun
milhão m (plural milhões)
- a type corn with a tall and large kernels
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