miliardo

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miliˈardo/

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• Rhymes: -ardo
• Syllabification: mi‧li‧ar‧do

Noun

miliardo (accusative singular miliardon, plural miliardoj, accusative plural miliardojn)

1. billion (10⁹)

Usage notes

• Not as common as the expression mil milionoj. In Esperanto, numbers of a million and larger are treated as nouns and are declined as such, using the preposition da when modifying another noun, e.g. mil milionoj da dolaroj.

Derived terms

• miliardulo (“billionaire”)

Italian

Italian numbers ^(edit)

		10,000,000,000 (1010)[a], [b]
[a], [b] ←  1,000,000 (106)	[a], [b] ←  100,000,000 (108)	1,000,000,000 (109)	2,000,000,000 (2 × 109)  → [a], [b]	10,000,000,000 (1010)  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: un miliardo, unmiliardo     Ordinal: miliardesimo
Italian Wikipedia article on 1,000,000,000 (109)

Etymology

Borrowed from French milliard, from a change in suffix of million.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈljar.do/
• Rhymes: -ardo
• Hyphenation: mi‧liàr‧do
• (Romanesco) IPA^(key): /miˈar.do/, /ˈmjar.do/

Numeral

miliardo m (plural miliardi)

1. billion (10⁹)

Usage notes

• One billion is normally written un miliardo or unmiliardo.
• Multiples are often written as two words, e.g. due miliardi (“two billion”).

Derived terms

• bilione
• miliardario
• miliardesimo

Further reading

• miliardo on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• miliardo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana