miliardo
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [miliˈardo]
- Audio:
(file) - Rhymes: -ardo
- Hyphenation: mi‧li‧ar‧do
Noun
miliardo (accusative singular miliardon, plural miliardoj, accusative plural miliardojn)
- 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
- miliardulo (“billionaire”)
Italian
| 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: unmiliardo, unmiliardo Ordinal: miliardesimo | ||||
| Italian Wikipedia article on 1,000,000,000 (109) | ||||
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)
- 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
- bilione
- miliardario
- miliardesimo
Further reading
miliardo on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it- miliardo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana