Where does “quadrillion” come from?

quadrillion (English) comes from French quadrillion, from Middle French quadrillion, from French -illion, from French million, from Middle French million, from Old French millon, from Italian milione, from Italian mille.

quadrillion (English): A thousand trillion (logic: 1,000 × 1,0004): 1 followed by fifteen zeros, 1015

Definitions

  1. A thousand trillion (logic: 1,000 × 1,0004): 1 followed by fifteen zeros, 1015

Ancestry of “quadrillion”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchquadrillion10; a quadrillion by the long scale; a short...
2Middle Frenchquadrillionquadrillion (1024)
3French-illionillion
4Frenchmillionmillion, 10
5Middle Frenchmillionmillion, 10
6Old Frenchmillon—
7Italianmilionemillion
8Italianmillethousand
9LatinMīllethousand; 1000
10Proto-Italicsmīɣeslīthousand
11Proto-Indo-Europeansmih₂ǵʰéslih₂—

Words derived from “quadrillion”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ →Every word from Proto-Italic smīɣeslī →Every word from Latin Mīlle →