millenta

Attested since 1697. From millar, "a thousand", with a rarely productive suffix -enta, equivalent to English -ty, extracted by reanalysis from corenta (“fourty”), cincuenta (“fifty”) … Compare Portuguese milhentos.

• IPA^(key): [miˈʎentɐ], [miˈʎɛntɐ]

millenta (indeclinable)

1. a thousand (loosely)

   Synonyms: mil, millar

2. a zillion; an undetermined large quantity
   • 1697, Francisco Antonio de Valle, Romance Galego:

     Eu non sei por onde empeze

     Nomear vosas grandezas,

     Vosos feitos, vosas obras,

     Porque non nacin Poeta.

     Si fora coma vn Ovidio,

     Que o mamou coa teta

     Non figera vinte copras;

     Figera mais de millenta.

     I don't know where to begin

     to name your greatnesses,

     your deeds, your works,

     because I was not born a poet.

     If I was like an Ovid,

     who sucked it in the tit,

     I wouldn't have made twenty couplets:

     I would have made more than a zillion.

• “millenta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “millenta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “millenta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.