Where does “billionaire” come from?

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billionaire (English): Somebody whose wealth is greater than one billion...

Definitions

  1. Somebody whose wealth is greater than one billion...

Ancestry of “billionaire”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishbillioncardinal...
2Frenchbillion10; a long scale billion; a short scale trillion
3French-illionillion
4Frenchmillionmillion, 10
5Middle Frenchmillionmillion, 10
6Old Frenchmillon
7Italianmilionemillion
8Italianmillethousand
9LatinMīllethousand; 1000
10Proto-Italicsmīɣeslīthousand
11Proto-Indo-Europeansmih₂ǵʰéslih₂

Words derived from “billionaire

Every word from Proto-Indo-European smih₂ǵʰéslih₂