Where does “multimillion” come from?
Multimillion comes from English million, from Italian milione, from the Italian augmentative suffix -one applied to Italian mille, from Latin mille meaning "thousand."
multimillion (English): Having several millions; costing or worth many...
Definitions
- Having several millions; costing or worth many...
Ancestry of “multimillion”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | million | The cardinal number 1,000,000: 10; a thousand... |
| 2 | Middle English | milioun | The cardinal number 1 000 000: 106; a thousand thousand |
| 3 | Middle French | million | million, 10 |
| 4 | Old French | millon | — |
| 5 | Italian | milione | million |
| 6 | Italian | mille | thousand |
| 7 | Latin | Mīlle | thousand; 1000 |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | smīɣeslī | thousand |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ | — |