miliard

miliard

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French milliard.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /mi.liˈaɾt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /mi.liˈart/

Noun

miliard m (plural miliards)

1. (cardinal number, rare) billion (10⁹)

Usage notes

• The usual way to express this number is as mil milions (literally “a thousand million”), rather than this word.

Further reading

• “miliard” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “miliard”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “miliard” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “miliard” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Occitan

Pronunciation

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Numeral

miliard

1. billion, 10⁹

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 648.

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Polish

Polish numbers ^(edit)

←  1,000	←  1,000,000 (106)	1,000,000,000 (109)	1012  →	1015  →
Cardinal: miliard     Ordinal: miliardowy

Alternative forms

• mld (abbreviation)

Etymology

Borrowed from French milliard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ljart/

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• Rhymes: -iljart
• Syllabification: mi‧liard

Noun

miliard m inan

1. a milliard; a short-scale billion (10⁹)

Usage notes

With a predicate used in a neuter gender.

Declension

Declension of miliard

	singular	plural
nominative	miliard	miliardy
genitive	miliarda	miliardów
dative	miliardowi	miliardom
accusative	miliard	miliardy
instrumental	miliardem	miliardami
locative	miliardzie	miliardach
vocative	miliardzie	miliardy

Further reading

• miliard in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• miliard in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French milliard.

Noun

miliard n (plural miliarde)

1. billion

Declension

Declension of miliard

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) miliard	miliardul	(niște) miliarde	miliardele
genitive/dative	(unui) miliard	miliardului	(unor) miliarde	miliardelor
vocative	miliardule		miliardelor