Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

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Etymology

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From Spanish ciento.

Numeral

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ciento

  1. hundred.

Latin

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Verb

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cientō

  1. third-person plural future active imperative of cieō

Spanish

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Spanish numbers (edit)
1,000
 ←  90  ←  99 100 101  →  200  → 
10
    Cardinal: cien, (before lower numerals) ciento
    Ordinal: centésimo
    Ordinal abbreviation: 100.º
    Multiplier: céntuplo
    Fractional: centésimo, centavo, céntimo

Etymology

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Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

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Number

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ciento

  1. one hundred (100) (only in compounds followed by lower numerals)
    Ciento dos personas vinieron.
    One hundred and two people came.

Usage notes

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Cebuano: siyento
  • Chayuco Mixtec: ziendu
  • Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: ciento
  • Lake Miwok: ṣijénto
  • Tagalog: siyento

Noun

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ciento m (plural cientos)

  1. hundred (100 units of something)
    Compré dos cientos de manzanas.
    I bought two hundred apples.
    (literally, “I bought two hundreds of apples”)
  2. (in the plural) hundreds (an indefinite number consisting of several hundred)

Further reading

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