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Webster 1913 Edition


Cento

Cen′to

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Centos
(#)
.
[L.
cento
a garment of several pieces sewed together, patchwork, a poem made up of various verses of another poem.]
A literary or a musical composition formed by selections from different authors disposed in a new order.

Webster 1828 Edition


Cento

CENTO

,
Noun.
A composition formed by verses or passages from other authors, disposed in a new order.

Definition 2024


cento

cento

English

Noun

cento (plural centos or centones)

  1. A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors.
    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
      Now look out in the GRADUS for Purus, and you find as the first synonime, lacteus, for coloratus, and the first synonime is purpureus. I mention this by way of elucidating one of the most ordinary processes in the ferrumination of these Centos.
    • 1915 September 1, Charles A. Graves, “The Forged Letter of General Lee”, in Southern Historical Society Papers, New Series, number 40, page 124:
      And Captain McCabe says: "I have always regarded the letter as a sort of 'cento' of odds and ends (badly put together) from Lee's genuine letters."
    • 2007, William Poole, “Out of his Furrow”, in London Review of Books, volume 29, number 3, page 16:
      Paradise Lost, as Teskey observes, is a cento, a vast echo chamber of classical texts, all twisted into new shapes.

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Esperanto

Etymology

cent + -o

Pronunciation

Noun

cento (accusative singular centon, plural centoj, accusative plural centojn)

  1. hundred, group of one hundred of something

Galician

Numeral

cento

  1. combining form of cen (100).

Usage notes

The indeclinable form cen means "one hundred" only. To say "one hundred one", the combining form cento is used, as cento un or cento unha. Likewise, "one hundred thirty" is cento trinta, and "one hundred fifty-four" is cento cincuenta e catro.


Interlingua

Noun

cento (plural centos)

  1. hundred

Numeral

cento

  1. a hundred

Italian

Italian cardinal numbers
 <  99 100 101  > 
    Cardinal : cento
    Ordinal : centesimo

Etymology

From Latin centum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

  • cènto, IPA(key): /ˈtʃɛnto/

Adjective

cento m, f (invariable)

  1. hundred
Italian cardinal numbers
 <  101 102 103  > 
    Cardinal : cento

Noun

cento m (invariable)

  1. hundred

Related terms

See also

  • Appendix:Italian numbers

Anagrams


Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κέντρων (kéntrōn).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈken.toː/, [ˈkɛn.toː]

Noun

centō m (genitive centōnis); third declension

  1. A garment of several pieces sewed together; a patchwork
  2. A cap worn under the helmet

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative centō centōnēs
genitive centōnis centōnum
dative centōnī centōnibus
accusative centōnem centōnēs
ablative centōne centōnibus
vocative centō centōnēs

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin centum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsẽ.tu/
  • Homophone: sento
  • Hyphenation: cen‧to

Adjective

cento m, f

  1. (only in compounds) one hundred
    Cento e duas pessoas vieram.
    One hundred and two people came.

Usage notes

For 100 itself, cem is used.

Noun

cento m (plural centos)

  1. hundred (100 units of something)
    Comprei dois centos de maçãs.
    I bought two hundred apples. (literally: I bought two hundreds of apples)