milion

See also: milión

Czech

Alternative forms

• milión

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪlɪjon]
• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪlɪjoːn]
• Hyphenation: mi‧lion

Noun

milion m inan

1. million

Declension

Declension of milion (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	milion	miliony
genitive	milionu	milionů
dative	milionu	milionům
accusative	milion	miliony
vocative	milione	miliony
locative	milionu	milionech
instrumental	milionem	miliony

Further reading

• “milion”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “milion”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• milion in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Esperanto

Noun

milion

1. accusative singular of milio

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese milhão.

Numeral

milion

1. million (1.000.000)

Occitan

Pronunciation

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Numeral

milion (plural milions)

1. million

Related terms

• milionari
• milionen
• milionesim

Further reading

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

Polish

Polish numbers ^(edit)

←  1,000	←  100,000	1,000,000 (106)	1,000,000,000 (109)  →	1012  →
Cardinal: milion     Ordinal: milionowy

Alternative forms

• milon, milijon, milian (Middle Polish)
• miljon (pre-reform orthography (1936))

Etymology

Borrowed from French million. First attested in 1538.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ljɔn/

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• Rhymes: -iljɔn
• Syllabification: mi‧lion

Noun

milion m inan (diminutive milionik, related adjective milionowy, abbreviation mln or mil.)

1. million (10⁶)

   Synonyms: bańka, melon

2. million (unspecified very large number)

   Synonym: mnóstwo

3. herd (large group of people)

Declension

Declension of milion

	singular	plural
nominative	milion	miliony
genitive	milionu	milionów
dative	milionowi	milionom
accusative	milion	miliony
instrumental	milionem	milionami
locative	milionie	milionach
vocative	milionie	miliony

Derived terms

verbs

• wyglądać jak milion dolarów impf

 

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), milion is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 33 times in scientific texts, 97 times in news, 74 times in essays, 10 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 217 times, making it the 258th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Further reading

• milion in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• milion in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Ewa Rodek (23.04.2021) “MILION”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “milion”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “miljon”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “milion”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 983
• milion in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French million.

Pronunciation

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Noun

milion n (plural milioane)

1. million

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	milion	milionul		milioane	milioanele
genitive-dative	milion	milionului		milioane	milioanelor
vocative	milionule			milioanelor

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• milìjūn (Croatia)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /milǐoːn/
• Hyphenation: mi‧li‧on

Noun

milìōn m (Cyrillic spelling милѝо̄н)

1. million

Declension

Declension of milion

	singular	plural
nominative	milion	milioni
genitive	miliona	miliona
dative	milionu	milionima
accusative	milion	milione
vocative	milione	milioni
locative	milionu	milionima
instrumental	milionom	milionima