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Learned borrowing from Latin centum (“hundred”), attested at least since 1890s. Its use in linguistics is due to it being a canonical example of a word retaining an original velar stop, as opposed to Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬙𐬆𐬨 (satəm). Doublet of hundred and satem.
centum (not comparable)
Calque of Sanskrit शतक (śataka, “a hundred; a satakam”). The latter meaning is attested at least since 1991 and is explained by 100-point academic grading in India.
centum (plural centums)
| 1,000 | ||||
| ← 90 | ← 99 | C 100 |
200 → | 1,000 → |
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| 10 | ||||
| Cardinal: centum Ordinal: centēsimus Adverbial: centiēs, centiēns Proportional: centuplus, centumplus Multiplier: centumplex, centuplex, centiplex Distributive: centēnus Collective: centuria Fractional: centēsimus |
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From Proto-Italic *kəntom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Formal cognates include Sanskrit शत (śata), Old Church Slavonic съто (sŭto), and 古期英語 hund (whence English hundred, with an attached suffix). Doublet of *suta.
centum (indeclinable)
The numeral centum behaves like an indeclinable adjective. See Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers for additional information.
Unsorted borrowings (many of them via Romance):