cinquecento
- numeral
- /tʃɪnkwəˈtʃɛntoʊ/
- In Italian, cinquecento is used to refer to the number 500.
Examples
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The price of the car is cinquecento euros.
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Can you lend me cinquecento dollars?
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The price was listed as cinquecento euro in the Italian catalog.
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She counted to cinquecento in Italian during the language class.
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In Italian, cinquecento is used to refer to the number 500.
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The price was listed as cinquecento euro in the Italian catalog.
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She counted to cinquecento in Italian during the language class.
Synonyms
A number equal to five hundred
A number equal to 500
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cinquecento comes from the Italian parts cinque 'five' and cento 'hundred', the same root you see in century and cent. So in Italian the word simply means the number 500.