centavo

Examples

• All

• In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, for example, the province of Santiago del Estero sold 46 million hectares for a half-centavo each.

  Academic text (2000)

• One-twentieth costs you only 20 centavos.

  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

• I swear, it will leave me without a centavo.

  The Mark of Zorro (1940)

• Come on, mister, only 50 centavos.

  Pocket Money (1972)

• The cots are only 50 centavos a night.

  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

• If that happens, she asks them for money, a dollar, even though at the time of our story it would have been only twenty-five centavos.

  Fiction book (1997)

• The old skinflint offered eighty centavos for it, which I had no recourse but to accept.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Cubans receive a bar of soap every six months from the government, at a price of 20 Cuban centavos each, when there is soap to be had.

  Academic text (1996)

• Unlike Andrea and Luisa, Carmen had no intention of spending a centavo of her money on a man; rather, she saved it all to build a house in Santo Domingo.

  Academic text (2004)

• The price of the bus ticket is 15 centavos in this country.

Synonyms

C

cent

vscentavo

950 1.0

A small coin worth one hundredth of a dollar

is the same concept but used under different local names

C

centime

vscentavo

1 7.6

A small coin equal to one hundredth of a franc used in French-speaking countries

is the same idea but used mainly in French language areas

C

centimo

vscentavo

9.4

A coin worth one hundredth of the main unit of money in some countries

is used the same way but in other Latin American countries and the Philippines

C

centesimo

vscentavo

9.9

A small coin equal to one hundredth of a country's currency, used in countries like Panama and Uruguay

is similar but appears in different Latin American states and the Philippines

H

Haitian centime

vscentavo

9.9

A small money unit or coin in Haiti equal to one hundredth of a gourde

is the same unit but used across multiple countries not only Haiti

C

centas

vscentavo

• Archaic

9.9

A former Lithuanian coin equal to one hundredth of a litas

is the same subunit type but current in other nations

Surface Forms

Etymology