million etymology

English word million comes from Latin mille passus, Latin mille passuum, Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes-, Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes-lo-, Proto-Indo-European *(sm̥-)ǵʰéslo-, Italian -one, and later Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslom (Thousand.)

Detailed word origin of million

Dictionary entryLanguageDefinition
mille passus Latin (lat) A Roman mile of 8 stadia; 1,000 ; or 5,000 pedēs, approximately 4,854 English feet.
mille passuum Latin (lat)
*ǵʰes- Proto-Indo-European (ine-pro)
*ǵʰes-lo- Proto-Indo-European (ine-pro)
*(sm̥-)ǵʰéslo- Proto-Indo-European (ine-pro)
-one Italian (ita) An augmentative suffix, used to indicate largeness or importance. (organic chemistry) ketone. (physics) -on (particle).
*ǵʰéslom Proto-Indo-European (ine-pro) Thousand.
*sm-ih₂-ǵʰés-l-ih₂ Proto-Indo-European (ine-pro)
*smīɣeslī Proto-Italic (itc-pro)
mile Latin (lat)
mille Italian (ita) (cardinal) thousand Thousand.
milione Italian (ita) Million.
million English (eng) (long and short scales) The cardinal number 1,000,000: 106.

Words with the same origin as million

Descendants of mille passus
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Descendants of *ǵʰes-
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