bilião

Portuguese

Portuguese numbers ^(edit)

←  1,000,000 (106)	[a], [b] ←  1,000,000,000 (109)	1012	1015  → [a], [b], [c]	1018  → [a], [b]
Cardinal (everywhere but Brazil): um bilião     Cardinal (Brazil): um trilhão     Ordinal (Brazil): trilionésimo     Ordinal (Portugal): bilionésimo     Fractional (everywhere but Brazil): um bilião avos     Fractional (Brazil): trilionésimo, um trilhão avos     Fractional (Portugal): bilionésimo
Portuguese Wikipedia article on 1012

Alternative forms

• bilhão (informal in Portugal)

Etymology

Borrowed from French billion.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /bi.liˈɐ̃w̃/ [bi.lɪˈɐ̃ʊ̯̃], (faster pronunciation) /biˈljɐ̃w̃/ [biˈljɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /biˈljɐ̃w̃/

• Hyphenation: bi‧li‧ão

Noun

bilião m (plural biliões)

1. (Angola, Portugal, cardinal number) trillion (10¹²)

   Synonym: (Brazil) trilhão

2. (colloquial, hyperbolic) billion (an unspecified very large number)

   Tenho um bilião de coisas para fazer.

   I have billions of things to do.