ciento
Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl edit
Etymology edit
Numeral edit
ciento
Latin edit
Verb edit
cientō
Spanish edit
1,000 | ||||
← 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 |
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθjento/ [ˈθjẽn̪.t̪o]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈsjento/ [ˈsjẽn̪.t̪o]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -ento
- Syllabification: cien‧to
- Homophone: (depending on region) siento
Number edit
ciento
- one hundred (100) (only in compounds followed by lower numerals)
- Ciento dos personas vinieron.
- One hundred and two people came.
Usage notes edit
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Cebuano: siyento
- → Chayuco Mixtec: ziendu
- → Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: ciento
- → Lake Miwok: ṣijénto
- → Tagalog: siyento
Noun edit
ciento m (plural cientos)
- hundred (100 units of something)
- Compré dos cientos de manzanas.
- I bought two hundred apples.
- (literally, “I bought two hundreds of apples”)
- (in the plural) hundreds (an indefinite number consisting of several hundred)
Further reading edit
- “ciento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014