billón
Appearance
See also: billon
Asturian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Numeral
[edit]billón m sg or f sg (plural billones)
- trillion; 1012
Spanish
[edit]← 1,000,000 (106) | [a], [b] ← 1,000,000,000 (109) | 1012 | 1018 → | |
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Cardinal: un billón Ordinal: billonésimo Fractional: billonésimo | ||||
Spanish Wikipedia article on 1012 |
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]billón m (plural billones)
- (cardinal number) trillion (1012)
- (obsolete, except in the US, Philippines) billion (109)
- Synonyms: millardo, mil millones
Usage notes
[edit]- Outside of Spanish spoken in the United States, billón is a false friend, and does not mean billion. The Spanish word for billion is mil millones.
Further reading
[edit]- “billón”, 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
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