-illion

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Suffixes

-archy

-Biology suffixes

-cide

-cracy

-cycle

-gate

-genesis

-hood

-ic

-id

-illion

-ism

-ist

-kinesis

-mania

-manship

-nik

-graphy

-oid

-logy

-ome

-omics

-nomy

-onym

-ous

-phil-

-phob-

-phone

-polis

-scope

-ship

-stan

-ville

-ware

The suffix -illion is used to identify large numbers, such as million.

There are some mock numbers with this suffix, such as zillion and many others.

[edit] Short scale

In the English language, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Russia, Turkey and Greece, the most common system for -illion is called the short scale. In this scale, the suffix is added to a Latin-derived numerical prefix meaning n to indicate 10⁽³ⁿ⁺³⁾. For example, a quadrillion is 10^(3×4+3), or 10⁽¹²⁺³⁾, or 10¹⁵.

[edit] Long scale

In the remainder of the world, the long scale system is prevalent. In this, the -illion suffix is added to the Latin prefix meaning n to indicate 10⁽⁶ⁿ⁾. Numbers of the form 10⁽⁶ⁿ⁺³⁾ can still be read as the word "thousand" in the respective language followed by n-illion.