million是什么意思（million的用法）

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一、million是什么意思

1、million 百万

2、来自拉丁语mille,一千，-on,大词后缀。字面意思即好多个一千，大千，后由抽象数词过渡到固定数词。比较hundred,thousand.

二、million的用法

1、million

2、million: see mile

3、million (n.)

4、late 14c., from Old French million (late 13c.), from Italian millione (now milione), literally "a great thousand," augmentative of mille "thousand," from Latin mille, which is of uncertain origin. Used mainly by mathematicians until 16c. India, with its love of large numbers, had names before 3c. for numbers well beyond a billion. The ancient Greeks had no name for a number greater than ten thousand, the Romans for none higher than a hundred thousand. "A million" in Latin would have been decies centena milia, literally "ten hundred thousand." Million to one as a type of "long odds" is attested from 1761. Related: Millions.

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