milione

million

noun mee-LYOH-neh Common

Origin: Old Italian milione, augmentative of mille (thousand)

Usage Note

Milione is masculine; plural milioni. It requires di before a noun when used as a quantifier: tre milioni di persone (three million people) — the di is mandatory, unlike with mille. Do not confuse with miliardo (billion, i.e. 10⁹). Un milione takes the indefinite article: un milione di euro.

Examples

"La città ha due milioni di abitanti."

Natural Translation

The city has two million inhabitants.

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