English

Noun

cento ‎(plural centos or centones)

1. A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors.
   • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

     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 1, 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

• centonical

Anagrams

• c note, c-note, Noteć

Esperanto

Etymology

cent +‎ -o

Pronunciation

Noun

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

1. hundred, group of one hundred of something

Galician

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

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• cènto, IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɛnto/

Adjective

cento m, f ‎(invariable)

1. hundred

Noun

cento m ‎(invariable)

1. hundred

Related terms

See also

• Appendix:Italian numbers

Anagrams

• conte

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κέντρων ‎(kéntrōn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈken.toː/, [ˈkɛn.toː]

Noun

centō m ‎(genitive centōnis); third declension

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

Inflection

Third declension.

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 Latin centum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsẽ.tu/
• Homophone: sento
• Hyphenation: cen‧to

Adjective

cento m, f

1. (only in compounds) one hundred

   Cento e duas pessoas vieram.‎

   One hundred and two people came.

Usage notes

For 100 itself, cem is used.

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)