centesimo
noun
a monetary unit of Italy until the euro was adopted, one 100th of a lira.
centesimi
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pluralof centesimo.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He worked eleven hours per day, received 32 centesimi per hour, made 121 trips per day with his wheelbarrow full of stones.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of doling out 1,250 or so lire for a dollar, bank clerks would slap down a single new lira and 25 centesimi, or cents.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was you who used to give the poor bird centesimi.
From A Comedy of Masks A Novel by Ernest Christopher Dowson
"The professors themselves respect it greatly . . . una lira e cinquanti centesimi, Signor Conde."
From A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad
The franc is divided into 100 centimes, the lira into 100 centesimi and the drachma into 100 lepta.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various
