different between mixture vs cento

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French misture, from Latin mixt?ra (“a mixing”), from mixtus, perfect passive participle of misce? (“mix”); compare mix.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: m?ks?ch?r, IPA^(key): /?m?kst??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?kst??/
• Hyphenation: mix?ture

Noun

mixture (countable and uncountable, plural mixtures)

1. The act of mixing.

   The mixture of sulphuric acid and water produces heat.

2. Something produced by mixing.

   An alloy is a mixture of two metals.

3. Something that consists of diverse elements.

   The day was a mixture of sunshine and showers.

4. A medicinal compound, typically a suspension of a solid in a solution

   A teaspoonful of the mixture to be taken three times daily after meals

5. (music) A compound organ stop.
6. A cloth of variegated colouring.
7. (India) A mix of different dry foods as a snack, especially chevda or Bombay mix.

Derived terms

• cough mixture

Related terms

• mix
• mixer

Translations

Further reading

• mixture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• mixture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Participle

mixt?re

1. vocative masculine singular of mixt?rus

Portuguese

Verb

mixture

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of mixturar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of mixturar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of mixturar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of mixturar

Spanish

Verb

mixture

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mixturar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mixturar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of mixturar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of mixturar.

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)