-illion

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中文释义

英文释义

后缀
  1. Combined with Latin prefixes for names of integers in order to form names of powers of a million. morpheme
    — bi- + -illion → billion
  2. Added to various nonsense syllables to indicate an arbitrarily very large number. morpheme
    — bajillion, gazillion

词汇关系

相关词
-illiard

词源

Back-formation from million, then used in billion, trillion, quadrillion, each from French, ultimately from Italian mille (“thousand”) and the augmentative suffix -one. -illion was segmented from million as if mi- was a prefix, and -illion the stem.
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