milliard
English
| ← 1,000,000 (106) | [a], [b] ← 100,000,000 (108) | 1,000,000,000 (109) | 1012 → [a], [b] | 1015 → [a], [b] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: billion, milliard, thousand million Ordinal: billionth, milliardth, thousand-millionth Multiplier: billionfold, milliardfold, thousand-millionfold Metric collective prefix: giga- Metric fractional prefix: nano- Number of years: giga-annum, gigayear | ||||
Etymology
Etymology tree
Borrowed from French milliard.
Pronunciation
Numeral
milliard (plural milliards)
- (now rare) 10⁹, a thousand (times a) million. (Now generally replaced by the short scale billion.) [from 18th c.]
- Synonyms: billion (short scale), thousand million
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 155:
- For the coming year France would contribute 80 milliard francs ($200 million) to the Algerian budget [...].
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
10^9 — see billion
See also
Anagrams
Crimean Tatar
Etymology
Borrowed from French milliard.
Numeral
milliard
- A milliard (a short scale billion).
Declension
| nominative | milliard |
|---|---|
| genitive | milliardnıñ |
| dative | milliardğa |
| accusative | milliardnı |
| locative | milliardda |
| ablative | milliarddan |
References
- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002), Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary][1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from French milliard.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [miliˈɑˀd̥], [milˈjɑˀd̥]
Noun
milliard
- 109
Declension
| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | milliard | milliarden | milliarder | milliarderne |
| genitive | milliards | milliardens | milliarders | milliardernes |
French
| ← 1,000,000 (106) | ← 2,000,000 (2 × 106) | 1,000,000,000 (109) | 1012 → [a], [b] | 1015 → [a], [b] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: un milliard Ordinal: milliardième | ||||
| French Wikipedia article on 1,000,000,000 (109) | ||||
Etymology
From million, by changing the suffix to -ard.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi.ljaʁ/
Audio (France (Paris)): (file) Audio (France (Toulouse)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) - Hyphenation: mil‧liard
Numeral
milliard m (plural milliards)
- billion (109)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Albanian: miliard
- → Arabic: مليار (milyār)
- Moroccan Arabic: مليار (malyār)
- → Armenian: միլիառ (miliaṙ)
- → Breton: miliard
- → Catalan: miliard
- → Crimean Tatar: milliard
- → Czech: miliarda
- → Danish: milliard
- → Dutch: miljard, milliard (obsolete)
- → English: milliard
- → Finnish: miljardi
- → German: Milliarde
- → Hebrew: מיליארד (milyárd)
- → Italian: miliardo
- → Karelian: miljardi
- → Lithuanian: milijardas
- → Luxembourgish: Milliard
- → Macedonian: милијарда (milijarda)
- → Northern Kurdish: milyar
- → Norwegian: milliard
- → Occitan: miliard
- → Ottoman Turkish: میلیار
- Turkish: milyar
- → Persian: میلیارد (milyârd)
- → Polish: miliard
- → Romanian: miliard
- → Romansh: milliard, milliarda (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
- → Russian: миллиард (milliard), млрд (mlrd)
- → Serbo-Croatian: milijarda / милијарда
- → Spanish: millardo
- → Swedish: miljard
- → Ukrainian: мільярд (milʹjard)
- → Uyghur: مىليارد (milyard)
- → Uzbek: milliard
- → Yiddish: מיליאַרד (milyard)
Further reading
- “milliard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
milliard m (definite singular milliarden, indefinite plural milliarder, definite plural milliardene)
- milliard (a short scale billion).
- a billion (1000 million)
References
- “milliard” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
milliard m (definite singular milliarden, indefinite plural milliardar, definite plural milliardane)
- milliard (a short scale billion).
- a billion (1000 million)
References
- “milliard” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romansh
Alternative forms
Numeral
milliard
- (Puter, Vallader) milliard (a short scale billion).
Noun
milliard m (plural milliards)
- (Puter, Vallader) milliard (a short scale billion).
Derived terms
Tatar
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian миллиа́рд (milliárd).
Numeral
milliard (Cyrillic spelling миллиард)
- A milliard (a short scale billion).
Declension
| nominative | milliard |
|---|---|
| genitive | milliardnıñ |
| dative | milliardga |
| accusative | milliardnı |
| locative | milliardda |
| ablative | milliarddan |
Uzbek
| ← 1,000 | ← 1,000,000 (106) | 1,000,000,000 (109) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: milliard Ordinal: milliardinchi | ||||
Numeral
milliard
Derived terms
- milliardinchi (“milliardth”)