tropecientos

Spanish

Etymology

Blend of tropel (“crowd”) +‎ cientos (“hundreds”), modeled after doscientos, trescientos, cuatrocientos, […] .

Adjective

tropecientos (feminine tropecientas, plurale tantum)

zillion

Related terms

(Mexico) chorromil
(Peru) cuchucientos
(Argentina) quichicientos
(El Salvador) quinimil
(Venezuela, Peru) sopotocientos

Further reading

“tropecientos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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