bilhão

== Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: bi‧lhão === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from French billion. ==== Noun ==== bilhão m (plural bilhões) (Brazil, cardinal number, short scale) billion (109) Synonym: (Angola, Portugal) mil milhões (“109”) Coordinate terms: mil (“103”), milhão (“106”), bilhão (“109”), trilhão (“1012”), quadrilhão / quatrilhão (“1015”) — short scale (Portugal, informal, cardinal number, long scale) alternative form of bilião (“1012”) Synonym: (Brazil) trilhão (“1012”) Coordinate terms: milhão (“106”), mil milhões (“109”), bilhão (“1012”), mil bilhões (“1015”), trilhão (“1018”) — long scale, informal (colloquial, hyperbolic) billion (an unspecified very large number) ===== Usage notes ===== Portuguese-speaking countries follow the traditional long scale, with the exception of Brazil, which adopted the short scale used in the UK and US. The number 109 is expressed as mil milhões (literally “one thousand million”) in African and European Portuguese, but as um bilhão in Brazilian Portuguese. The Angolan Government prescribes the use of long scale. In Portugal, the alternative um bilhão (“one trillion, 1012”) is an informal form of the preferred and prescribed um bilião. ===== Quotations ===== For quotations using this term, see Citations:bilhão. === Etymology 2 === Borrowed from French billon. ==== Noun ==== bilhão m (plural bilhões) billon === References === === Further reading === “bilhão”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026