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Asturian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /miˈʎon/,
- Hyphenation: 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/
- Rhymes: -oŋ
- Hyphenation: mi‧llón
Noun
millón m (plural millóns)
- million
- Synonym: conto (archaic)
Spanish
Spanish numbers (edit)
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10,000,000 (107)
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← 200,000
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1,000,000 (106)
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2,000,000 (2 × 106) →
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10,000,000 (107) →
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100,000
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Cardinal: un millón
Ordinal: millonésimo
Ordinal abbreviation: 1 000 000.º
Fractional: millonésimo
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Etymology
Borrowed from Italian milione, replacing earlier cuento (“one million”), from Latin computus (“computation, calculation; count”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /miˈʝon/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /miˈʎon/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /miˈʃon/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /miˈʒon/
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: mi‧llón
Noun
millón m (plural millones)
- (cardinal number) million (106)
- Synonym: cuento (obsolete)
Derived terms
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