centum

¹ American  

[sen-tuhm] / ˈsɛn təm /

noun

1. one hundred.

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centum ² American  

[ken-tuhm, -toom] / ˈkɛn təm, -tʊm /

adjective

1. belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family of languages that preserve the Proto-Indo-European labiovelar stops but merge the palatal stops into the velar stops. The centum branches include Germanic, Celtic, Italic, and Hellenic.

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centum British  

/ ˈsɛntəm /

adjective

1. denoting or belonging to the Indo-European languages in which original velar stops ( k ) were not palatalized, namely languages of the Hellenic, Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Anatolian, and Tocharian branches Compare satem

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Etymology

Origin of centum¹

From Latin; see origin at hundred

Origin of centum²

First recorded in 1900–05; from Latin, exemplifying in c- the outcome of Indo-European palatal velar stops characteristic of the group

Example Sentences

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centum

This numerical equivalence results from the definition of the “percentage” unit, whose name is derived from the Latin phrase per centum meaning “by the hundred.”

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

Vaccination does not always prevent infection by smallpox, but it does prevent it in more than 90 per centum of exposures to the disease.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley

Coins should be boiled, and paper money should be dipped in the 10 per centum carbolic acid solution and dried at a stove.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley

The diagnosis, then, is difficult; and for the ordinary practitioner, the average physician, who does perhaps ninety-five per centum of the medical work of the world, the diagnosis is often impossible.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley

The maternal deaths from carcinoma of the uterus during pregnancy is, according to the latest and most favourable statistics, 30 per centum.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley