English

Adjective

Centum ‎(not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of centum

English

Alternative forms

• Centum

Adjective

centum ‎(not comparable)

1. (Indo-European linguistics) referring to an Indo-European language that did not produce sibilants from a series of Proto-Indo-European palatovelar stops.

Antonyms

• (Indo-European linguistics): satem

Derived terms

• centumization

Noun

centum ‎(plural centums)

1. (India) A perfect score on a board exam.

Italian

Adjective

centum ‎(invariable)

1. used only in the term lingua centum

Latin

Alternative forms

• Symbol: C

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Formal cognates include Sanskrit शत ‎(śata), Old Church Slavonic съто ‎(sŭto) and Old English hund.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈken.tum/, [ˈkɛn.tũ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃen.tum/

Numeral

centum ‎(indeclinable)

1. (cardinal) a hundred; 100
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgicon 4.381

     Simul ipsa precatur Oceanumque patrem rerum Nymphasque sorores centum quae silvas, centum quae flumina servant.

     Together she entreats father Ocean, and the sister-nymphs who guard a hundred forests and a hundred streams.

Usage notes

The numeral centum behaves like an indeclinable adjective. See Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers for additional information.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

See also

• Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

References

• centum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• centum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• CENTUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “centum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to reach one's hundredth year, to live to be a hundred: centum annos complere
    
  • about a hundred of our men fell: nostri circiter centum ceciderunt