centum

Examples

• All

• In Latin, the word centum means one hundred and is the source of many numerical words in Romance languages.

• A hundred grand in total over a period of time.

• According to ancient sources, he lost just a few hundred men, while the Persians lost thousands.

• What happened in those hundred days that made you a different listener?

• Two of that hundred say we're going to stop break even and the other four think we're going to depreciate slightly.

• They find that number of cities, these hundred cities have all set fairly ambitious goals.

• So every hundred years on a year that would have been a leap year going by the four year rule, we skip one and we take away that extra day.

• And the hundred coin tosses, all heads up, is likely to make true the hypothesis that the coin is biased.

• The term centum refers to the Latin word for the number one hundred.

Synonyms

1

100

vscentum

∞ 1.0

A number that is ten times ten and one more than ninety-nine

is the Latin word rather than a digit form

H

hundred

vscentum

∞ 1.0

A number equal to ten groups of ten

is the Latin word rather than the English term

O

one hundred

vscentum

194 1.0

A number equal to ten times ten

is the Latin word for that number

C

C

vscentum

3 1.0

A Roman numeral for one hundred

is the Latin word rather than a Roman numeral

Compounds

C

Centum language

• Specialized

9.9

A group of Indo-European languages that keep original k sounds, for example Latin

P

per centum

7.6

A number that shows how much out of every hundred

Surface Forms

Etymology