bilhão
Portuguese
| ← 1,000,000 (106) | ← 100,000,000 (108) | 1,000,000,000 (109) | 1012 → [a], [b] | 1015 → [a], [b], [c] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardinal (Brazil): umbilhão Cardinal (Portugal): mil milhões Ordinal (Brazil): bilionésimo Ordinal (Portugal): milésimo milionésimo, milésimo de milionésimo Fractional (Brazil): bilionésimo, umbilhão avos Fractional (Portugal): milésimo milionésimo, milésimo de milionésimo, mil milhões avos | ||||
| Portuguese Wikipedia article on 1,000,000,000 (109) | ||||
Alternative forms
- bilião (especially in Portugal)
Etymology
Borrowed from French billion.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /biˈʎɐ̃w̃/ [biˈʎɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /biˈʎɐ̃w̃/
- Hyphenation: bi‧lhão
Noun
bilhão m (plural bilhões)
- (Brazil, cardinal number) billion (109)
- Synonym: (Portugal) mil milhões
- (Portugal, informal, cardinal number) trillion (1012)
- Synonyms: (Portugal, preferred in most circumstances) bilião, (Brazil) trilhão
Usage notes
- Brazil (along with the US and UK) uses the short scale large-number naming system, while Portugal uses the long scale. The number 109 (one billion) is expressed in Brazilian Portuguese as um bilhão but in European and African Portuguese as mil milhões (literally “one thousand million”).[1]
- In Portugal, um bilhão means "one trillion" (1012) but is considered an informal spelling; bilião is preferred in most circumstances.[2]
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:bilhão.
References
- https://www.flip.pt/Duvidas-Linguisticas/Duvida-Linguistica/DID/4389
- “bilhão” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.