Where does “multimillionaire” come from?
Multimillionaire derives from English millionaire, from French millionnaire, combining French mille and the French suffix -aire, ultimately from Latin -arius and Latin mille meaning thousand.
multimillionaire (English): A person whose net worth is two or more million...
Definitions
- A person whose net worth is two or more million...
Ancestry of “multimillionaire”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | millionaire | A person whose net worth is at or greater than... |
| 2 | French | millionnaire | millionaire; Very rich |
| 3 | French | million | million, 10 |
| 4 | Middle French | million | million, 10 |
| 5 | Old French | millon | — |
| 6 | Italian | milione | million |
| 7 | Italian | mille | thousand |
| 8 | Latin | Mīlle | thousand; 1000 |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | smīɣeslī | thousand |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ | — |