millón

Asturian

Numeral

millón m sg or f sg (plural millones)

1. million; 1,000,000

   un millón llobos — one million wolves

   un millón vaques — one million cows

   dos millones llobos — two million wolves

   dos millones vaques — two million cows

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Galician

Noun

millón m (plural millóns)

1. million

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Spanish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian milione, replacing earlier cuento (“one million”), from Latin computus (“computation, calculation; count”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /miˈʝon/ [miˈʝõn]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /miˈʝon/ [miˈʝõn]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /miˈʎon/ [miˈʎõn]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /miˈʃon/ [miˈʃõn]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /miˈʒon/ [miˈʒõn]

• Rhymes: -on

Noun

millón m (plural millones)

1. million (10⁶)

Derived terms

• cien millones
• la pregunta del millón
• mil millones
• millonario

Further reading

• “millón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014