trillion

See also: Trillion

English

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪljən/
• Rhymes: -ɪljən

Etymology 1

From French trillion, from tri- (“three”) +‎ -illion.

Numeral

trillion

1. (US, modern Britain, Australia, short scale) A million million: 1 followed by twelve zeros, 10¹².
2. (dated Britain, Australia, long scale) A million million million: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 10¹⁸.

See also

• (short scale) Previous: billion. Next: quadrillion
• (long scale) Previous: billiard. Next: trilliard
• (SI prefix): tera-

Translations

a million million, 10¹²

• Armenian: տրիլիոն (hy) (trilion)
• Catalan: bilió (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 万亿 (zh) (wànyì), 萬億 (zh) (wànyì)

• Czech: bilión (cs) m
• Dutch: biljoen (nl) n
• Esperanto: duiliono
• Estonian: biljon
• Faroese: billión f
• Finnish: biljoona (fi)
• French: billion (fr) m, mille milliards (fr) m pl
• German: Billion (de) f
• Greek: τρισεκατομμύριο (el) n (trisekatommýrio)
• Greenlandic: billioni
• Italian: bilione (it) f
• Japanese: 兆 (ja) (ちょう, chō)
• Javanese: kirna

• Korean: 조 (ko) (jo) (兆 (ko))
• Malay: trilion
• Maltese: biljun
• Navajo: chiyóón
• Novial: bilione
• Polish: bilion (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: bilhão (pt) m (European Portuguese), bilião (pt) (European Portuguese), trilhão (pt) (Brazilian Portuguese)
• Russian: триллио́н (ru) m (trillión)
• Slovak: bilión m
• Spanish: billón (es) m
• Swahili: trilioni
• Swedish: biljon (sv) c
• Tatar: триллион (tt) (trillion)
• Turkish: trilyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: трильйо́н (uk) m (trylʹjón)
• Yiddish: ביליאָן‏‎ m (bilyon)

a million million million, 10¹⁸

• Catalan: trilió (ca)
• Czech: trilión m
• Dutch: triljoen (nl) n
• Esperanto: triiliono
• Estonian: triljon
• Faroese: trillión f
• Finnish: triljoona (fi)
• French: trillion (fr) m
• German: Trillion (de) f
• Italian: trilione (it) f
• Maltese: triljun

• Maori: tiriona
• Novial: trilione
• Polish: trylion (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: trilhão (pt) m
• Russian: квинтиллио́н (ru) m (kvintillión)
• Sinhalese: ත්‍රිලියනය (t‍riliyanaya)
• Slovak: trilión m
• Spanish: trillón (es) m
• Swedish: triljon (sv) c
• Turkish: kentilyon (tr)

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Translations to be checked

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} bilion n

• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} bilion m

Etymology 2

Coined by Harvey Pollack, because of the way the numbers read across a basketball box score

Noun

trillion (plural trillions)

1. (basketball, slang) A statistic formed by a player playing some number of minutes, but recording no stats.

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French

Etymology

From tri- (“three”) +‎ -illion, from million; i.e. a million million million.

Coined by Jehan Adam in 1475 as trimillion. Rendered as tryllion by Nicolas Chuquet in 1484, in his article “Triparty en la science des nombres”.

Numeral

trillion

1. 10¹⁸; a long scale trillion; a short scale quintillion.

Usage notes

• Previous: billiard, 10¹⁵
• Next: trilliard, 10²¹

Related terms

• billion, coined at same time

Descendants

• Catalan: trilió

Further reading

• “trillion” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Middle French

Noun

trillion m (plural trillions)

1. trillion, 10¹⁸
   • 1520, Étienne de La Roche, L'arismethique novellement composee, page 6

     ung trillion vault mille milliers de billions

     a trillion is equivalent to a thousand thousands of billions

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Tatar

Numeral

trillion (Cyrillic spelling триллион)

1. (cardinal) trillion (10¹²)

Declension

Declension of trillion

nominative	trillion
genitive	trillionnıñ
dative	trillionga
accusative	trillionnı
locative	trillionda
ablative	trillionnan