centavo
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Spanish or Portuguese.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
centavo (plural centavos)
- Currency unit (hundredth of a peso) in Mexico.
- A similar subdenomination of various other currencies (in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and the Philippines).
- (historical) The former subdenomination of some other currencies (in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Puerto Rico, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Venezuela).
FrenchEdit
NounEdit
centavo m (plural centavos)
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From cento (“hundred”) + -avo.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
centavo m (plural centavi)
AnagramsEdit
Norwegian BokmålEdit
NounEdit
centavo m (definite singular centavoen, indefinite plural centavos or centavo, definite plural centavoene)
- a centavo
Norwegian NynorskEdit
NounEdit
centavo m (plural centavoen)
- a centavo
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From cento (“hundred”) + -avo.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
centavo m (plural centavos)
- cent (a hundredth of several monetary units, including the Brazilian real, the Portuguese escudo, and the Mozambican metical)
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SpanishEdit
1,000 | ||||
[a], [b] ← 90 | ← 99 | 100 | 101 → | 200 → |
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10 | ||||
Cardinal: cien, (before lower numerals) ciento Ordinal: centésimo Ordinal abbreviation: 100.º Multiplier: céntuplo Fractional: centésimo, centavo, céntimo | ||||
Spanish Wikipedia article on 100 |
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From ciento (“hundred”) + -avo.
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θenˈtabo/ [θẽn̪ˈt̪a.β̞o]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /senˈtabo/ [sẽn̪ˈt̪a.β̞o]
- Rhymes: -abo
- Syllabification: cen‧ta‧vo
AdjectiveEdit
centavo (feminine centava, masculine plural centavos, feminine plural centavas)
NounEdit
centavo m (plural centavos)
- (fractional number) hundredth
- cent (subunit of currency in US and other countries)
- Synonym: céntimo
DescendantsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “centavo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014