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“hundred-fold” in Latin

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

hundred-fold
centuplicatus (increased 100 times; centuplex, hundred-fold; e.g., murus, Plaut.: fructus, Prudentius): centuplus (100 times as much; Vulg., Evang. Luc., 8, 8). Adverb, centuplicato; centuplum; cum centesimo: to be sold at a hundred-fold, centuplicato venire: to bear a hundred-fold, cum centesimo redire (of seed; after Varr., R.R., 1, 44, 1): efficere, efferre cum centesimo (of land): the earth bears a hundred-fold, cum centesima fruge agricolis fenus reddit terra: the fields bear wheat a hundred-fold, campi cum centesimo fundunt triticum.

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What is the Latin word for hundred-fold?
The usual Latin words for “hundred-fold” are centuplicō, centuplus, centuplex; also mūrus, fruor, prūdēns. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.