miliardo

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ardo
  • Hyphenation: mi‧li‧ar‧do

Noun

miliardo (accusative singular miliardon, plural miliardoj, accusative plural miliardojn)

  1. billion (109)

Usage notes

  • Not as common as the expression mil milionoj. In Esperanto, numbers of a million and larger are treated as nouns and are declined as such, using the preposition da when modifying another noun, e.g. mil milionoj da dolaroj.

Derived terms

Italian

Italian numbers (edit)
10,000,000,000 (1010)[a], [b]
[a], [b] ←  1,000,000 (106) [a], [b] ←  100,000,000 (108) 1,000,000,000 (109) 2,000,000,000 (2 x 109)  → [a], [b] 10,000,000,000 (1010)  → [a], [b]
    Cardinal: un miliardo, unmiliardo
    Ordinal: miliardesimo

Etymology

Borrowed from French milliard, from a change in suffix of million.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miˈljar.do/
  • Rhymes: -ardo
  • Hyphenation: mi‧liàr‧do

Numeral

miliardo m (plural miliardi)

  1. billion (109)

Usage notes

  • One billion is normally written un miliardo or unmiliardo.
  • Multiples are often written as two words, e.g. due miliardi (two billion).

Derived terms

Further reading

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