numeral
centum
centum (indeclinable)
Classical[ˈkɛn.tũː]Ecclesiastical[ˈt͡ʃɛn.tum]
№ 730 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- indeclinablea hundred; 100
Simul ipsa precatur Oceanumque patrem rerum Nymphasque sorores centum quae silvas, centum quae flumina servant.
Together she entreats father Ocean, and the sister-nymphs who guard a hundred forests and a hundred streams.c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 4.381
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- centum annos complere
- to reach one's hundredth year, to live to be a hundred.
- nostri circiter centum ceciderunt
- about a hundred of our men fell.
centum, indecl.
I. num. [Sanscr. catam; Gr. ἑ-κα-τόν; Goth. hund].
II. Poet., for an indefinite, large number:
mihi si linguae centum sint, oraque centum, Verg. G. 2, 43: centum clavibus servata, Hor. C. 2, 14, 26: centum puer artium, id. ib. 4, 1, 15: jugera, id. S. 1, 1, 50: greges, id. C. 2, 16, 33: cyathi, id. ib. 3, 8, 14: chlamydes. id. Ep. 1, 6, 41 al.; cf. Quint. 7, 10, 8; and, ludi, Tib. 1, 7, 49 Huschk.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
centum or C
num. indecl, a hundred: anni: dies: viciens centum milia passuum, Cs.—Indef., a hundred, many, countless: mihi si linguae centum sint, V.: centum puer artium, H.
Origins
From Proto-Italic *kəntom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Formal cognates include Sanskrit शत (śata), Old Church Slavonic съто (sŭto), and Old English hund (whence English hundred, with an attached suffix). Doublet of *suta.
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