bilhão

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From French billion.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [biˈʎɐ̃w̃]
  • Hyphenation: bi‧lhão

Noun

bilhão m (plural bilhões)

  1. (Brazil) billion (short scale, 109)
  2. (Portugal) trillion (long scale, 1012)

Usage notes

Brazil (along with the United States and the UK) has adopted the long scale large-number naming system. Brazilian Portuguese bilhão corresponds to mil milhões (“thousand millions”) in European Portuguese.[1]

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:bilhão.

Synonyms
  • (billion): mil milhões (Portugal)

References
  1. https://www.flip.pt/Duvidas-Linguisticas/Duvida-Linguistica/DID/4389
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