different between cents vs cento

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?nts/
• (AAVE) IPA^(key): /s?n/
• Homophones: sense, since, scents
• Rhymes: -?nts

Noun

cents

1. plural of cent

Anagrams

• scent

Catalan

Noun

cents

1. masculine plural of cent

French

Pronunciation

Noun

cents m

1. plural of cent

Latvian

Etymology

Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Latin centum (“hundred”).

Noun

cents m (1st declension)

1. cent (a currency subunit (one hundredth of the main unit) used with several currencies, among which the dollar and the euro)

Declension

Swedish

Noun

cents

1. indefinite genitive plural of cent
2. indefinite genitive singular of cent

English

Etymology

From Latin cento (“patchwork garment”).

Noun

cento (plural centos or centones)

1. A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors, or a poem containing individual lines from other poems.

   • Now look out in the GRADUS for Purus, and you find as the first synonime, lacteus, for coloratus, and the first synonime is purpureus. I mention this by way of elucidating one of the most ordinary processes in the ferrumination of these Centos.

Derived terms

• centoism
• centoist
• centonical
• centonism

Anagrams

• Conte, Conté, Note?, c note, c-note, conté, cteno-, oncet, tecno-

Esperanto

Etymology

cent +? -o

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tsento/
• Hyphenation: cen?to
• Rhymes: -ento

Noun

cento (accusative singular centon, plural centoj, accusative plural centojn)

1. hundred, group of one hundred of something

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cento, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *?m?tóm.

Numeral

cento

1. combining form of cen (100).

Usage notes

The indeclinable form cen means "one hundred" only. To say "one hundred one", the combining form cento is used, as cento un or cento unha. Likewise, "one hundred thirty" is cento trinta, and "one hundred fifty-four" is cento cincuenta e catro.

Interlingua

Noun

cento (plural centos)

1. hundred

Numeral

cento

1. a hundred

Derived terms

• duo centos (“two hundred”)
• quatro centos (“four hundred”)
• cinque centos (“five hundred”)
• novem centos (“nine hundred”)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *?m?tóm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???n.to/
• Rhymes: -?nto

Numeral

cento

1. hundred

Derived terms

• duecento (“two hundred”)
• trecento (“three hundred”)
• quattrocento (“four hundred”)
• cinquecento (“five hundred”)
• seicento (“six hundred”)
• settecento (“seven hundred”)
• ottocento (“eight hundred”)
• novecento (“nine hundred”)

Related terms

See also

• Appendix:Italian numbers

Anagrams

• conte

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (kéntron).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ken.to?/, [?k?n?t?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??en.to/, [?t???n?t??]

Noun

cent? m (genitive cent?nis); third declension

1. A garment of several pieces sewed together; a patchwork
2. A cap worn under the helmet

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Italian: cencio

References

• cento in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cento in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cento in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cento in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cento in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cento, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *?m?tóm.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?s?.tu/
• Homophone: sento
• Hyphenation: cen?to

Adjective

cento m or f

1. (only in compounds) one hundred

Usage notes

For 100 itself, cem is used.

Noun

cento m (plural centos)

1. hundred (100 units of something)