Marco Polo invented a new word that humanity still uses today. Venetian merchants then used the word mille, which means "thousand", to express large sums. Marco Polo coined the word "million". It consists of two elements: Mil - a thousand and "ONE" - a suffix that increases the meaning of the word. In Russian, imagination -. "seeker" or "seeker". In the literal sense, "miglione" is a thousand, a big thousand. This is how the modern word "million" was created. This is why Mark Polo was nicknamed "Apron Million" during his lifetime.