Where does “million” come from?

Million comes from Italian milione, formed from Italian mille (thousand) plus the augmentative suffix -one, ultimately derived from Latin mille meaning thousand.

million (English): The cardinal number 1,000,000: 10; a thousand...

Definitions

  1. The cardinal number 1,000,000: 10; a thousand...

Ancestry of “million”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishmiliounThe cardinal number 1 000 000: 106; a thousand thousand
2Middle Frenchmillionmillion, 10
3Old Frenchmillon
4Italianmilionemillion
5Italianmillethousand
6LatinMīllethousand; 1000
7Proto-Italicsmīɣeslīthousand
8Proto-Indo-Europeansmih₂ǵʰéslih₂

Words derived from “million

Every word from Proto-Indo-European smih₂ǵʰéslih₂