English
Milliongate
From million + -gate.
Formed from million + -gate
Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂
…
Italian milione ‘million’
Old French millon
Middle French milion ‘million’
Middle English milioun ‘million’
English million
Today it means
name A scandal in Sierra Leone in the 1980s, involving the appropriation of millions of leones of government money for private use.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Milliongate