# trillion
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: trĭl'yən, IPA: /ˈtɹɪljən/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪljən

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French trillion, from French tri- (“three”) + -illion, equivalent to tri- +‎ -illion.

#### Numeral

trillion (plural trillions)
* (US, modern British, Australia, short scale) A million (times a) million: 1 followed by twelve zeros, 10$^{12}$.
** 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3: From Ashes (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:Javik: Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. Their silence is your answer.
** 2024 January 3, Hanna Ziady and Tami Luhby, “US national debt hits record $34 trillion”, in CNN‎:Data published by the Treasury Department showed that “total public debt outstanding” rose to $34.001 trillion on December 29.
** 2025 March 7, Kayla Tausche, “Dismantling of Education Department puts future of trillions of dollars in student loans in question”, in CNN‎:As President Donald Trump prepares to order the dismantling of the Department of Education, the financial arm of the agency – which makes loans directly to borrowers and manages trillions of dollars in student debt – faces an uncertain future, with steep staff cuts and lack of communication exacerbating the uncertainty, according to interviews with more than a dozen current and former department employees.
* (dated British, Australia, long scale) A million (times a) million (times a) million: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 10$^{18}$.

##### Synonyms

* (10$^{12}$): a long scale billion
* (10$^{18}$): a short scale quintillion
* tln, tln.
* tn, tn.
* tril, tril.
* T, t, T., t.

##### Coordinate terms

* thousand
* million
* milliard
* thousand million
* billion
* quadrillion
* quintillion
* sextillion

##### Descendants

* → Welsh: triliwn

##### Translations

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##### See also

* (short scale) Previous: billion. Next: quadrillion
* (long scale) Previous: billiard. Next: trilliard
* (SI prefix): tera-

### Etymology 2

Coined by Harvey Pollack, because of the way the numbers read across a basketball box score.

#### Noun

trillion (plural trillions)
* (basketball, slang) A statistic formed by a player playing some number of minutes, but recording no stats.

## French
### Etymology

From tri- (“three”) +‎ -illion, from million; i.e. a million million million.
Coined by Jehan Adam in 1475 as trimillion. Rendered as tryllion by Nicolas Chuquet in 1484, in his article “Triparty en la science des nombres”.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʁi.ljɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Numeral

trillion m (plural trillions)
* quintillion (10$^{18}$)
* (dated) trillion (10$^{12}$)

#### Related terms

* billion, coined at same time

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: trilió

### Further reading

* “trillion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Middle French
### Noun

trillion m (plural trillions)
* trillion, 10$^{18}$
** 1520, Étienne de La Roche, L'arismethique novellement composee, page 6:ung trillion vault mille milliers de billionsa trillion is equivalent to a thousand thousands of billions

## Tatar
### Numeral

trillion (Cyrillic spelling триллион)
* trillion (10$^{12}$)