millón

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈʎon/, [miˈʎõŋ]
• Hyphenation: mi‧llón

Numeral

millón m sg or f sg (plural millones)

1. million; 1,000,000

   un millón llobos — one million wolves

   un millón vaques — one million cows

   dos millones llobos — two million wolves

   dos millones vaques — two million cows

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈɟoŋ/ [miˈɟoŋ]
• Rhymes: -oŋ
• Hyphenation: mi‧llón

Noun

millón m (plural millóns)

1. million

   Synonym: conto (archaic)

Spanish

Spanish numbers ^(edit)

		10,000,000 (107)
←  100,000	←  200,000	1,000,000 (106)	2,000,000 (2 × 106)  →	10,000,000 (107)  →
		100,000
Cardinal: un millón     Ordinal: millonésimo     Ordinal abbreviation: 1 000 000.º     Fractional: millonésimo
Spanish Wikipedia article on 1,000,000 (106)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian milione, replacing earlier cuento (“one million”), from Latin computus (“computation, calculation; count”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /miˈʝon/ [miˈʝõn]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /miˈʝon/ [miˈʝõn]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /miˈʎon/ [miˈʎõn]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /miˈʃon/ [miˈʃõn]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /miˈʒon/ [miˈʒõn]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: mi‧llón

Noun

millón m (plural millones)

1. (cardinal number) million (10⁶)

   Synonym: cuento (obsolete)

Derived terms

• la pregunta del millón
• mil millones
• millonario

 

Further reading

• “millón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28