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Million

3 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means the number one thousand thousand, 1,000,000
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Stage 1 of 3
mille
Latin · ancient
"a thousand"
a thousand, combined with an augmentative suffix for a thousand thousands
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Stage 2 of 3
milione
Italian · medieval
"a thousand thousands"
settled in Italian for the large number, a thousand thousands
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Stage 3 of 3
million
English · 1300s
"one thousand thousand"
adopted directly for the number one thousand thousand
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