bilião

Portuguese
Portuguese numbers (edit)
 ←  1,000,000 (106) [a], [b] ←  1,000,000,000 (109) 1012 1015  → [a], [b], [c] 1018  → [a], [b]
    Cardinal (everywhere but Brazil): um bilião
    Cardinal (Brazil): um trilhão
    Ordinal (Brazil): trilionésimo
    Ordinal (Portugal): bilionésimo
    Fractional (everywhere but Brazil): um bilião avos
    Fractional (Brazil): trilionésimo, um trilhão avos
    Fractional (Portugal): bilionésimo
Portuguese Wikipedia article on 1012

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from French billion.[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /bi.liˈɐ̃w̃/ [bi.lɪˈɐ̃ʊ̯̃], (faster pronunciation) /biˈljɐ̃w̃/ [biˈljɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

  • Hyphenation: bi‧li‧ão

Noun

bilião m (plural biliões)

  1. (Angola, Portugal, cardinal number) trillion (1012)
    Synonym: (Brazil) trilhão
  2. (colloquial, hyperbolic) billion (an unspecified very large number)
    Tenho um bilião de coisas para fazer.
    I have billions of things to do.

References
  1. “bilião” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
  2. “bilião” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
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