ciento
Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl
Etymology
From Spanish ciento.
Numeral
ciento
- hundred.
Latin
Verb
cientō
- third-person plural future active imperative of cieō
Spanish
1,000 | ||||
← 90 | ← 99 | 100 | 101 → | 200 → |
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10 | ||||
Cardinal: cien, (before lower numerals) ciento Ordinal: centésimo Ordinal abbreviation: 100.º Multiplier: céntuplo Fractional: centésimo, centavo, céntimo | ||||
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Etymology
From Old Spanish, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθjento/ [ˈθjẽn̪.t̪o]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈsjento/ [ˈsjẽn̪.t̪o]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -ento
- Syllabification: cien‧to
- Homophone: (depending on region) siento
Number
ciento
- one hundred (100) (only in compounds followed by lower numerals)
- Ciento dos personas vinieron.
- One hundred and two people came.
Usage notes
- See cien for usage of cien vs. ciento.
Derived terms
- ciento y la madre
- de ciento a viento
- de ciento en viento
Related terms
- cien
- porciento
- por ciento
- centenario
Descendants
- → Cebuano: siyento
- → Chayuco Mixtec: ziendu
- → Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: ciento
- → Lake Miwok: ṣijénto
- → Tagalog: siyento
Noun
ciento m (plural cientos)
- hundred (100 units of something)
- Compré dos cientos de manzanas.
- I bought two hundred apples.
- (literally, “I bought two hundreds of apples”)
- (in the plural) hundreds (an indefinite number consisting of several hundred)
Further reading
- “ciento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014