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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

  1. Having several millions; costing or worth many...

Ancestry of “multimillion”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmillionThe cardinal number 1,000,000: 10; a thousand...
2Middle Englishmilioun—
3Middle Frenchmillionmillion, 10
4Old Frenchmillon—
5Italianmilionemillion
6Italianmillethousand
7LatinMīlle—
8Proto-Italicsmīɣeslī—
9Proto-Indo-Europeansmih₂ǵʰéslih₂—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ →