bilhão
Portuguese
| ← 1,000,000 (106) | ← 100,000,000 (108) | 1,000,000,000 (109) | 1012 → [a], [b] | 1015 → [a], [b], [c] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardinal (Brazil): um bilhão Cardinal (everywhere but Brazil): mil milhões Ordinal (Brazil): bilionésimo Ordinal (Portugal): milésimo milionésimo, milésimo de milionésimo Fractional (Brazil): bilionésimo, um bilhão avos Fractional (Portugal): milésimo milionésimo, milésimo de milionésimo Fractional (everywhere but Brazil): mil milhões avos | ||||
| Portuguese Wikipedia article on 1,000,000,000 (109) | ||||
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /biˈʎɐ̃w̃/ [biˈʎɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /biˈʎɐ̃w̃/, /bɨˈʎɐ̃w̃/
- Hyphenation: bi‧lhão
Noun
bilhão m (plural bilhões)
- (Brazil, cardinal number) billion (109)
- (Portugal, informal, cardinal number) Synonym of bilião (“1012”)
Usage notes
- Portuguese-speaking countries follow the traditional long scale, with the exception of Brazil which adopted the short scale used in the UK and US. The number 109 is expressed as mil milhões (literally “one thousand million”) in African and European Portuguese, but as um bilhão in Brazilian Portuguese.[3]
- The Angolan Government proscribes the use of long scale.[4]
- In Portugal, the alternative um bilhão (“one trillion, 1012”) is an informal spelling of the preferred and proscribed um bilião.
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:bilhão.
References
- “bilhão” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “bilhão” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
- bilião e outros grandes números in FLiP - Dúvida Linguística
- Angola padroniza a escrita e a leitura dos grandes números in Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa
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