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; 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

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

Says Long: "The decline in purchasing power of 27%�before a single per centum is deducted for income tax�would outrage anybody but a teacher."

From Time Magazine Archive

Practically all abdominal colic—and this means 90 per centum of all the acute pain which follows gastro-intestinal disturbance in young or middle-aged adults—is due to appendicitis.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

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 ?Malley, Austin

About 70 to 80 per centum of the cases are in primiparous women.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin