millonario

/miʝoˈnaɾjo/ · B2 · adj

millionaire

💰 millón + -ario: a millionaire, or anything worth millions

Millón comes from Italian milione, meaning a big thousand. The suffix -ario marks a person or thing linked to something, so millonario is a person of millions. As an adjective it means big-money, as in un contrato millonario.

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