cento

See also: Cento and çénto

English

Etymology

From Latin cento (“patchwork garment”).

Noun

cento (plural centos or centones)

1. A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors, or a poem containing individual lines from other poems.
   • (Can we date this quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     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, 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.

Derived terms

• centoism
• centoist
• centonical
• centonism

Anagrams

• Conte, Conté, Noteć, c note, c-note, conté, cteno-, oncet, tecno-

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Esperanto

Etymology

cent +‎ -o

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtsento/
• Hyphenation: cen‧to
• Rhymes: -ento

• Audio:

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Noun

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

1. hundred, group of one hundred of something

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cento, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

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.

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Interlingua

Noun

cento (plural centos)

1. hundred

Numeral

cento

1. a hundred

Derived terms

• duo centos (“two hundred”)
• quatro centos (“four hundred”)
• cinque centos (“five hundred”)
• novem centos (“nine hundred”)

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Italian

Italian cardinal numbers

<  99	100	101  >
Cardinal : cento     Ordinal : centesimo

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• cènto, IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɛnto/
• Rhymes: -ɛnto

Adjective

cento m or f (invariable)

1. hundred

Italian cardinal numbers

<  101	102	103  >
Cardinal : cento

Numeral

cento

1. hundred

Derived terms

• duecento (“two hundred”)
• trecento (“three hundred”)
• quattrocento (“four hundred”)
• cinquecento (“five hundred”)
• seicento (“six hundred”)
• settecento (“seven hundred”)
• ottocento (“eight hundred”)
• novecento (“nine hundred”)

Related terms

• centavo
• centenario
• centennale
• centenne
• centennio
• centerbe
• centesima
• centesimale
• centesimo
• centiara
• centigrado
• centigrammo
• centile
• centilitro
• centiloquio
• centimano
• centimetrare
• centimetrato
• centimetrico
• centimetro
• centinaio
• centinodia
• centodieci
• centofoglie
• centogambe
• centometrista
• centomila
• centomillesimo
• centone
• centonervia
• centopelle
• centopiedi
• centotredici
• centouno
• centumvirale
• centumvirato
• centumviro
• centuplicare
• centuplice
• centuplo
• centuria
• centuriare
• centurione
• per cento

 

See also

• Appendix:Italian numbers

Anagrams

• conte

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈken.toː/, [ˈkɛn̪t̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃen.to/, [ˈt͡ʃɛn̪t̪o]

Noun

centō m (genitive centōnis); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	centō	centōnēs
Genitive	centōnis	centōnum
Dative	centōnī	centōnibus
Accusative	centōnem	centōnēs
Ablative	centōne	centōnibus
Vocative	centō	centōnēs

Descendants

• Italian: cencio

References

• “cento”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cento”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cento in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “cento”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cento”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cento, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

cento m or 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)