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cent

See also: Cent, Cent., and cent-

EnglishEdit

 
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Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English cent, from Old French cent, from Latin centum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
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cent (plural cents or cent)

  1. (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
    • 2015 November 22, “Pennies”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 35, HBO:
      It's true. 1.7 cents to make 1 cent. That really makes the phrase “you have to spend money to make money” ring painfully true.
  2. (informal) A small sum of money.
    He blew every last cent.
  3. (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
  4. (money) A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).
  5. (music) A hundredth of a semitone or half step.
  6. (nuclear physics) A unit of reactivity equal to one hundredth of a dollar.
  7. Abbreviation of century.
  8. (obsolete, except in per cent) Abbreviation of centum. One hundred.
    • c. 1450, Octouian Imperator (Octavian), lines 1463-4:
      And broght with hem many stout cent / Of green lordynges.
    • 1733, Alexander Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle III to Allen, Lord Bathurst, 372:
      The demon makes his full descent / In one abundant shower of cent per cent.
  9. Abbreviation of centigrade.
  10. Abbreviation of center.

Usage notesEdit

  • Due to the differing plural formats used in European languages, it is common to use the word cent as a plural throughout the Eurozone.

SynonymsEdit

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • → Catalan: cent
  • → Chinese:
    • Cantonese: 仙 (sin1)
    • Min Nan: 仙 (sian)
  • → French: cent
  • → Georgian: ცენტი (cenṭi)
  • → Hebrew: סנט‎ (sent)
  • → Italian: cent
  • → Korean: 센트 (senteu)
  • → Polish: cent
  • → Samoan: sene
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
  • → Swahili: senti
  • → Swedish: cent
  • Tok Pisin: sen

TranslationsEdit

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See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • cent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
  • cent at OneLook Dictionary Search

AnagramsEdit

CatalanEdit

Catalan numbers (edit)
1,000
←  90 ←  99 100 144  → 200  →
10
    Cardinal: cent
    Ordinal (Central): centè
    Ordinal (Valencian): centé
    Ordinal: centèsim
    Multiplier: cèntuple
Catalan Wikipedia article on 100

Etymology 1Edit

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

PronunciationEdit

  • (standard)
  • (before the words "anys", "homes", "hores") IPA(key): /ˈsent/
  • (any other position) IPA(key): /ˈsen/

NumeralEdit

cent m or f

  1. (cardinal number) hundred
Usage notesEdit
  • Catalan cardinal numbers may be used as masculine or feminine adjectives, except un/una (“1”), dos/dues (“2”), cents/centes (“100s”) and its compounds. When used as nouns, Catalan cardinal numbers are treated as masculine singular nouns in most contexts, but in expressions involving time such as la una i trenta (1:30) or les dues (two o'clock), they are feminine because the feminine noun hora has been elided.
Derived termsEdit

NounEdit

cent m (plural cents)

  1. hundred

See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from English cent. These senses of the word cent in Catalan derive from the inversion of meaning that took place in English where it was used to indicate one hundredth.

NounEdit

cent m (plural cents)

  1. (music) cent (a hundredth of a half step)
  2. (money) cent (a subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro)
Related termsEdit
  • cèntim (“a subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the base unit”)

Further readingEdit

DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Either a borrowing from English cent or a shortened borrowed from French centime.[1]

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

cent f (plural centen, diminutive centje n)

  1. (money) cent, a subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of the Dutch guilder
  2. (money) cent, a subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Afrikaans: sent
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: sent
  • → Caribbean Javanese: sèn
  • → Indonesian: sen
  • → Papiamentu: sèn, cens
  • → Sranan Tongo: sensi
    • → Caribbean Hindustani: señs
    • → Saramaccan: seén

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Philippa, Marlies; Debrabandere, Frans; Quak, Arend; Schoonheim, Tanneke; van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

EsperantoEdit

Esperanto numbers (edit)
1,000
←  90 ←  99 100 200  → 1,000  →
10
    Cardinal: cent
    Ordinal: centa
    Adverbial: cente
    Multiplier: centobla, centopa
    Fractional: centona, centono

EtymologyEdit

From Latin centum. Doublet of cendo.

PronunciationEdit

NumberEdit

cent

  1. hundred
    • 1907, L. L. Zamenhof (tr.), La revizoro, Paris: Esperantista Centra Librejo, translation of Ревизор by Nikolaj Vasiljeviĉ Gogol, Acto kvara:
      Ĉu vi, Pjotr Ivanoviĉ, ne havas cent rublojn?
      Do you, Pjotr Ivanovich, not have one hundred rubles?

Derived termsEdit

FrenchEdit

Etymology 1Edit

French numbers (edit)
1,000
[a], [b] ←  90 [a], [b] ←  99 100 200  → [a], [b] 1,000  →
10
    Cardinal: cent
    Ordinal: centième
    Ordinal abbreviation: 100e, (now nonstandard) 100ème
    Multiplier: centuple
French Wikipedia article on 100

From Middle French cent, from Old French cent, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

cent m (plural cents)

  1. hundred
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
  • → Garifuna: san
  • Haitian Creole: san
See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from English cent, itself from Old French.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

cent m (plural cents)

  1. (money) cent (one-hundredth of a dollar or of a euro)
    Synonym: centime
SynonymsEdit
  • (dollar): cenne (colloquial, Canada), sou (slang, North America)
DescendantsEdit
  • Haitian Creole: san
  • → Arabic: سنت‎ (sant)
  • → Garifuna: san
See alsoEdit

Further readingEdit

FriulianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

NumeralEdit

cent

  1. hundred

HungarianEdit

EtymologyEdit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

cent (plural centek)

  1. (money) cent (a subunit of currency)
  2. (informal) centilitre
    Synonym: centiliter

DeclensionEdit

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative cent centek
accusative centet centeket
dative centnek centeknek
instrumental centtel centekkel
causal-final centért centekért
translative centté centekké
terminative centig centekig
essive-formal centként centekként
essive-modal — —
inessive centben centekben
superessive centen centeken
adessive centnél centeknél
illative centbe centekbe
sublative centre centekre
allative centhez centekhez
elative centből centekből
delative centről centekről
ablative centtől centektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		centé centeké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		centéi centekéi
Possessive forms of cent
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. centem centjeim
2nd person sing. cented centjeid
3rd person sing. centje centjei
1st person plural centünk centjeink
2nd person plural centetek centjeitek
3rd person plural centjük centjeik

Derived termsEdit

Compound words

Further readingEdit

  • cent in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)

IdoEdit

Ido numbers (edit)
←  90 ←  99 100 1,000  →
10
    Cardinal: cent
    Ordinal: centesma
    Adverbial: centfoye
    Multiplier: centopla
    Fractional: centima

Etymology 1Edit

Back-formation from cento.

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

cent

  1. hundred (100)

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from English cent, French cent, German Cent, Italian cent, Russian цент (cent), Spanish centavo.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

cent (plural cents or cent-i)

  1. (numismatics) cent

ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from English cent.

NounEdit

cent m (invariable)

  1. cent (US coin)
  2. euro cent (European coin)

LombardEdit

EtymologyEdit

From cento.

NumeralEdit

cent

  1. hundred

OccitanEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

cent

  1. hundred

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎[1], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 242.

Old FrenchEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin centum.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /tsent/, (late) /sãnt/

NumeralEdit

cardinal number
100 Previous: nonante et nuef
Next: cent et un

cent m (oblique plural cenz or centz, nominative singular cenz or centz, nominative plural cent)

  1. one hundred

DescendantsEdit

  • Middle French: cent
    • French: cent (see there for further descendants)
  • Walloon: cint
  • → Dutch: cent (see there for further descendants)
  • → English: cent (see there for further descendants)

PolishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin centum or English cent.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

cent m anim

  1. cent

DeclensionEdit

Declension of cent
singular plural
nominative cent centy
genitive centa centów
dative centowi centom
accusative centa centy
instrumental centem centami
locative cencie centach
vocative cencie centy

Further readingEdit

  • cent in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • cent in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-CroatianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English cent.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

cȅnt m (Cyrillic spelling це̏нт)

  1. cent (hundredth of a dollar, euro, etc.)
  2. (music) cent (hundredth of a semitone)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of cent
singular plural
nominative cȅnt cȅnti
genitive centa cȇntā
dative centu centima
accusative cȅnt cente
vocative centu / cente centi
locative centu centima
instrumental centom centima

SpanishEdit

NounEdit

cent m (plural cents)

  1. cent (subunit of euro)
    Synonym: céntimo

Further readingEdit

SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English cent.

NounEdit

cent c

  1. cent; a subunit of currency

DeclensionEdit

Declension of cent 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative cent centen cent centen
Genitive cents centens cents centens

ReferencesEdit

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