milió

See also: milio

Catalan

Catalan numbers ^(edit)

[a], [b] ←  1	←  1,000	1,000,000 (106)	1012  →
Cardinal: un milió     Ordinal: milionèsim
Catalan Wikipedia article on 1,000,000 (106)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French million.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [mi.liˈu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [mi.liˈo]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -o

Noun

milió f (plural milions)

1. (cardinal number) million (10⁶)

Usage notes

• Milió, bilió and larger numbers are followed by de or d' unless a smaller number comes between milió, bilió, etc and the item being counted. Hence:
  • El gratacel va costar mil tres-cents quaranta-dos milions d'euros.

    The skyscraper cost one thousand three hundred forty-two million euros.

  • Un milió sis-centes quinze mil nou-centes vuit persones resideixen a Barcelona.

    One million six hundred fifteen thousand nine hundred and eight people reside in Barcelona.

• Unlike cent or mil, milió, bilió and larger numbers are often preceded un or una when there is only one of them.
• Catalan uses the long scale except when intentionally forming calques of short scale terms from other languages.

Derived terms

• milionèsim

Related terms

• miliard (10⁹)
• bilió (10¹²)
• trilió (10¹⁸)
• quadrilió (10²⁴)
• quintilió (10³⁰)

Further reading

• “milió”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “milió”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “milió” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “milió”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)