millionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Old French, from Italian milione (“million”), from mille (“thousand”) (from Latin mille) + the augmentative suffix -one. Compare -illion.

発音

• enPR: mĭl′yən, IPA^(key): /ˈmɪljən/, [ˈmɪʎən]
• 韻: -ɪljən
• ハイフネーション: mil‧lion

数詞

million (複数形 millions)

1. (long かつ short scales) The cardinal number 1,000,000: 10⁶; a thousand thousand.
2. (colloquial, hyperbolic) An unspecified very large number.

   I told you a million times before.

   I can think of millions of reasons not to go.

   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:

     Let him bring millions infinite of men,
     Unpeopling weſterne Affrica and Greece:
     Yet we aſſure vs of the victorie.

使用する際の注意点

Until the early 20th century, million behaved much like an ordinary quantificational noun (such as pair または handful). That is, it inflected in the plural when modified by a numeral greater than 1, and was separated from the noun it quantified with of, as in: five millions of pounds (rather than the modern equivalent, five million pounds).

派生語

関連する語

• thousand
• billion
• trillion

派生した語

• → Hawaiian: miliona
• → Maori: miriona
• → Sinhalese: මිලියනය (miliyanaya)
• → Welsh: miliwn
• → Yoruba: mílíọ̀nù

参考

• (short scale) Previous: thousand. Next: billion
• (long scale) Previous: thousand. Next: milliard
• (Ordinal) millionth
• ISO prefix: mega-
• mega