miliard

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French milliard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [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.
• “miliard” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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

Borrowed from French milliard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ljart/

• Audio:

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• 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, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• miliard in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

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