miliard

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French milliard.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

miliard m (plural miliards)

1. (cardinal number, rare) billion (10⁹)

Usage notes

• The usual way to express this number is as mil milions (literally “a thousand million”), rather than this word.

Further reading

• “miliard”, 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
• “miliard”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “miliard” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “miliard”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Occitan

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn):

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Numeral

miliard

1. billion, 10⁹

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006), Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[1], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 648

Polish

Polish numbers ^(edit)

←  1,000	←  1,000,000 (106)	1,000,000,000 (109)	1012  →	1015  →
Cardinal: miliard     Ordinal: miliardowy

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *sem-

Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂

Proto-Indo-European *smih₂

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes-

Proto-Indo-European *-lom

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslom

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Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslih₂

Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂

Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī

Latin mīlle

Italian mille

Proto-Indo-European *-ōder.

Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.?

Latin -ōnem

Italian -one

Italian milionebor.

Old French million

Middle French million

French million

Proto-Indo-European *kret-der.?

Proto-Germanic *harduz

Frankish *-hardbor.

Old French -art

Middle French [Term?]

French -ard

French milliardbor.

Polish miliard

Borrowed from French milliard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ljart/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iljart
• Syllabification: mi‧liard

Noun

miliard m inan (abbreviation mld)

1. a milliard; a short-scale billion (10⁹)

Declension

Declension of miliard

	singular	plural
nominative	miliard	miliardy
genitive	miliarda	miliardów
dative	miliardowi	miliardom
accusative	miliard	miliardy
instrumental	miliardem	miliardami
locative	miliardzie	miliardach
vocative	miliardzie	miliardy

Further reading

• “miliard”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “miliard”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *sem-

Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂

Proto-Indo-European *smih₂

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes-

Proto-Indo-European *-lom

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslom

▲

Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslih₂

Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂

Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī

Latin mīlle

Italian mille

Proto-Indo-European *-ōder.

Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.?

Latin -ōnem

Italian -one

Italian milionebor.

Old French million

Middle French million

French million

Proto-Indo-European *kret-der.?

Proto-Germanic *harduz

Frankish *-hardbor.

Old French -art

Middle French [Term?]

French -ard

French milliardbor.

Romanian miliard

Borrowed from French milliard.

Noun

miliard n (plural miliarde)

1. billion

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	miliard	miliardul	miliarde	miliardele
genitive-dative	miliard	miliardului	miliarde	miliardelor
vocative	miliardule		miliardelor