cento

See also: Cento and çénto

English

Etymology

From Latin cento (“patchwork garment”).

Pronunciation

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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.
   • 1659, John Evelyn, “A Character of England, as It was Lately Presented in a Letter to a Nobleman of France. […] The Third Edition.”, in William Upcott, compiler, The Miscellaneous Writings of John Evelyn, […], London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1825, →OCLC, page 156:

     But, S^r, I will no longer tire your patience w^th these monsters (the subject of every contemptuous pamphlet) then with the madness of the Anabaptists, Quakers, Fift Monarchy-men, and a cento of unheard of heresies besides, which, at present, deform the once renowned Church of England, and approach so little to the pretended Reformation, which we in France have been made to believe, that there is nothing more heavenly wide.

   • 1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “The Motives of the Present Work—Reception of the Author’s First Publication—The Discipline of His Taste at School—The Effect of Contemporary Writers on Youthful Minds—[William Lisle] Bowles’s Sonnets—Comparison between the Poets before and since Mr. [Alexander] Pope”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume I, London: Rest Fenner, […], →OCLC, footnote, page 21:

     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.

   • 1915 September, Charles A. Graves, “The Forged Letter of General Lee”, in Southern Historical Society Papers, New Series, number 40, page 124:

     And Captain McCabe says: "I have always regarded the letter as a sort of 'cento' of odds and ends (badly put together) from Lee's genuine letters."

   • 2007, William Poole, “Out of his Furrow”, in London Review of Books, volume 29, number 3, page 16:

     Paradise Lost, as Teskey observes, is a cento, a vast echo chamber of classical texts, all twisted into new shapes.

Derived terms

• centoism
• centoist
• centonical
• centonism

Anagrams

• oncet, Ecton, Noteć, et con., Conté, netco, cteno-, conté, etcon, c-note, c note, Conte, et con, conte, tecno-

Esperanto

Etymology

cent +‎ -o

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sento/

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• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: cen‧to

Noun

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

1. hundred, group of one hundred of something

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cento, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈθento/ [ˈθen̪.t̪ʊ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ˈθento/ [ˈθen̪.t̪ʊ]
• IPA^(key): (seseo) /ˈsento/ [ˈsen̪.t̪ʊ]

• Rhymes: -ento
• Hyphenation: cen‧to

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.

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto cento, English cent, French cent, German Cent, Italian cento, Russian це́нт (cént), Spanish cientos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sento/
• Hyphenation: cen‧to

Noun

cento (plural centi)

1. cent

References

• cento in Ido-English Dictionary by L.H. Dyer, 1924

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

Italian numbers ^(edit)

		1,000
←  90	←  99	100	101  → [a], [b]	200  →
		10
Cardinal: cento     Ordinal: centesimo     Ordinal abbreviation: 100º
Italian Wikipedia article on 100

Etymology

From Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛn.to/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnto
• Hyphenation: cèn‧to

Numeral

cento (invariable)

1. hundred, one 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

• centavo
• centenario
• centennale
• centenne
• centennio
• centerbe
• centesima
• centesimale
• centesimo
• centiara
• centigrado
• centigrammo
• centile
• centilitro
• centiloquio
• centimano
• centimetrare
• centimetrato
• centimetrico
• centimetro
• centinaio
• centinodia
• centodieci
• centofoglie
• centogambe
• centometrista
• centomila
• centomillesimo
• centone
• centonervia
• centopelle
• centopiedi
• centotredici
• centouno
• centumvirale
• centumvirato
• centumviro
• centuplicare
• centuplice
• centuplo
• centuria
• centuriare
• centurione
• per cento

Anagrams

• Conte, conte, tecno-

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɛn.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛn.to]

Noun

centō m (genitive centōnis); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	centō	centōnēs
genitive	centōnis	centōnum
dative	centōnī	centōnibus
accusative	centōnem	centōnēs
ablative	centōne	centōnibus
vocative	centō	centōnēs

Descendants

• ⇒? Vulgar Latin: *centium
  • 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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

Ligurian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Genoa) [ˈsɛntʊ], [ˈsentʊ]

Noun

cento m (plural venti)

1. hundred

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 304: “cento” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Portuguese

Portuguese numbers ^(edit)

		1,000
←  90	←  99	100	200  →	1,000  →
		10
Cardinal: cem, (before lower numerals) cento     Ordinal: centésimo     Ordinal abbreviation: 100.º, 100º     Multiplier: cêntuplo     Fractional: centésimo, cem avos

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cento, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsẽ.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsẽ.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsẽ.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsẽ.tu/

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• Hyphenation: cen‧to
• Homophone: sento
• Rhymes: -ẽtu

Numeral

cento m or f

1. one hundred (only in compounds followed by lower numerals)

   Cento e duas pessoas vieram.

   One hundred and two people came.

Usage notes

• See cem for usage of cem vs. cento.

Noun

cento m (plural centos)

1. hundred (100 units of something)

   Comprei dois centos de maçãs.

   I bought two hundred apples.

   (literally, “I bought two hundreds of apples”)

Further reading

• “cento”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cento”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026