millón

Asturian

Numeral

millón m sg or f sg (plural millones)

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

Galician

Noun

millón m (plural millóns)

million

Spanish

**Spanish numbers ^(edit)**
		10,000,000 (10⁷)
← 100,000	← 200,000	1,000,000 (10⁶)	2,000,000 (2 x 10⁶) →	10,000,000 (10⁷) →
		100,000
Cardinal: un millón Ordinal: millonésimo Ordinal abbreviation: 1 000 000.º Fractional: millonésimo
Spanish Wikipedia article on 1,000,000 (10⁶)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian milione, replacing earlier cuento (“one million”), from Latin computus (“computation, calculation; count”).

Pronunciation

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

Audio (Colombia): (file)
Rhymes: -on
Syllabification: mi‧llón

Noun

millón m (plural millones)

(cardinal number) million (10⁶)

Derived terms

Further reading

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

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