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million
Italian · medieval
"a great thousand"
an augmentative of "mille" (thousand), meaning a great thousand
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millionnaire
French · 1700s
"a person possessing a million"
coined for a person possessing a million units of currency
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millionaire
English · 1800s
"a person whose wealth exceeds a million currency units"
adopted directly from French
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