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語源

From 中期英語 centurioun, from Latin centuriō, centuriōnis (“a commander of a hundred, centurion”), from Latin centum (“a hundred”). Displaced native English hundreder and hundredman, from 中期英語 hundredman, from 古期英語 hundredmann (“centurion”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /sɛnˈtjʊəɹ.i.ən/, /sɛnˈtʃʊəɹ.i.ən/, /-ɔːɹ.i.ən/
• (米国発音) IPA: /sɛnˈtjʊɹ.i.ən/, /sɛnˈtʊɹ.i.ən/, /-ɚ.i.ən/

名詞

centurion (plural centurions)

1. (historical) An officer of the ancient Roman army, in command of a century of soldiers.
   • 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 5:

     “Man,” said the largest, most protective of the Praetorian guard, her lover, no doubt, and her peroxide-blond centurion, “for an apostle of peace you sure are filled up with war.”

2. (cricket) A player who scores a century.
3. (US) A pilot in the United States Navy who has performed one hundred night landings on an aircraft carrier.

同意語

• (an officer commanding one hundred or so men): centenier, centenary (obsolete), hundreder, hundredman

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アナグラム

• continuer, incounter, neutronic