"-illion" meaning in English

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Suffix

Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{back-form|en|million}} Back-formation from million, {{m|en|billion}} billion, {{m|en|trillion}} trillion, {{m|en|quadrillion}} quadrillion, {{der|en|fr|-}} French, {{m|it|mille||thousand}} mille (“thousand”), {{m|it|-one}} -one, {{m|fr|-illion}} -illion Head templates: {{head|en|suffix|cat2=|cat3=|head=|id=}} -illion, {{en-suffix}} -illion
  1. Combined with Latin prefixes for names of integers in order to form names of powers of a million or of a thousand greater than 1,000,000. Thus we have the names billion, trillion, etc. Tags: morpheme Related terms: -illiard Translations (suffix forming names of powers of a million or of a thousand greater than 1,000,000): -իլիոն (-ilion) (Armenian), -iliono (Esperanto), -illion (French)
    Sense id: en--illion-en-suffix-H3Qya3bD Categories (other): English back-formations Disambiguation of English back-formations: 66 34 Disambiguation of 'suffix forming names of powers of a million or of a thousand greater than 1,000,000': 97 3
  2. Added to various nonsense syllables to indicate an arbitrarily very large number. Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en--illion-en-suffix-ejl2CUC8

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