-illion

suffix

Etymology

Back-formation from million, then used in billion, trillion, quadrillion, each from French, ultimately from Italian mille (“thousand”) and the augmentative suffix -one. -illion was segmented from million as if mi- was a prefix, and -illion the stem.

Definitions

1
Combined with Latin prefixes for names of integers in order to form names of powers of a…
Combined with Latin prefixes for names of integers in order to form names of powers of a million.
- bi- + -illion → billion
- tri- + -illion → trillion
2
Added to various nonsense syllables to indicate an arbitrarily very large number.
- bajillion, gazillion

The neighborhood

neighbor-illiard

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -illion. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA