The story
- French · borrowed frommillionnaire
- English todaymillionaire
From French millionnaire. By surface analysis, million + -aire.
Words from the same roots
Frenchmillionnaire all →
-aire
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
millionaire
Today it means: Somebody whose wealth is at least one million (10⁶) currency units (usually understood to exclude holders of hyperinflated currencies). Full definition →
French millionnaire