cento
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin cento (“patchwork garment”).
NounEdit
cento (plural centos or centones)
- A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors, or a poem containing individual lines from other poems.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 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 1, 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.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Derived termsEdit
AnagramsEdit
EsperantoEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
cento (accusative singular centon, plural centoj, accusative plural centojn)
- hundred, group of one hundred of something
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Portuguese cento, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.
NumeralEdit
cento
- combining form of cen (100).
Usage notesEdit
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.
InterlinguaEdit
ItalianEdit
< 99 | 100 | 101 > |
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Cardinal : cento Ordinal : centesimo | ||
EtymologyEdit
From Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
cento m, f (invariable)
< 101 | 102 | 103 > |
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Cardinal : cento | ||
NounEdit
cento m (invariable)
Related termsEdit
- 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 alsoEdit
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LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
centō m (genitive centōnis); third declension
InflectionEdit
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | centō | centōnēs |
Genitive | centōnis | centōnum |
Dative | centōnī | centōnibus |
Accusative | centōnem | centōnēs |
Ablative | centōne | centōnibus |
Vocative | centō | centōnēs |
DescendantsEdit
- Italian: cencio
ReferencesEdit
- 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, 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
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Portuguese cento, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
cento m, f
- (only in compounds) one hundred
- Cento e duas pessoas vieram.
- One hundred and two people came.
Usage notesEdit
For 100 itself, cem is used.
NounEdit
cento m (plural centos)
- hundred (100 units of something)
- Comprei dois centos de maçãs.
- I bought two hundred apples. (literally: I bought two hundreds of apples)