cent
English
Alternative forms
- (abbreviations): cent.
Etymology
From Middle English cent, from Old French cent, from Latin centum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛnt
- enPR: sĕnt, IPA(key): /sɛnt/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophones: scent, sent
Noun
cent (plural cents or cent)
- (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
- 2015 November 22, “Pennies”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 35, HBO:
- It's true. 1.7 cents to make 1 cent. That really makes the phrase “you have to spend money to make money” ring painfully true.
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- (informal) A small sum of money.
- He blew every last cent.
- (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
- (money) A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).
- (music) A hundredth of a semitone or half step.
- (nuclear physics) A unit of reactivity equal to one hundredth of a dollar.
- Abbreviation of century.
- (obsolete, except in per cent) Abbreviation of centum. One hundred.
- c. 1450, Octouian Imperator (Octavian), lines 1463-4:
- And broght with hem many stout cent / Of green lordynges.
- 1733, Alexander Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle III to Allen, Lord Bathurst, 372:
- The demon makes his full descent / In one abundant shower of cent per cent.
- c. 1450, Octouian Imperator (Octavian), lines 1463-4:
- Abbreviation of centigrade.
- Abbreviation of center.
Usage notes
- Due to the differing plural formats used in European languages, it is common to use the word cent as a plural throughout the Eurozone.
Synonyms
- (of a dollar): dollarcent
- (of a euro): Eurocent
- (coin (Canada, US)): penny
Derived terms
- cent percent
- dollar-and-cent
- Fugio cent
- half cent
- red cent
- ten-cent store
- ten-cent tour
- ten-cent word
- twenty-five cent word
Related terms
- centennial
- centi-
- centipede
- centurion
- century
Descendants
- → Catalan: cent
- → Chinese:
- Cantonese: 仙 (sin1)
- Min Nan: 仙 (sian)
- → French: cent
- → Georgian: ცენტი (cenṭi)
- → Hebrew: סנט (sent)
- → Italian: cent
- → Korean: 센트 (senteu)
- → Polish: cent
- → Samoan: sene
- → English: sene
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: це̏нт
- Latin: cȅnt
- → Swahili: senti
- → Swedish: cent
- Tok Pisin: sen
- → Rotokas: sieri
Translations
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See also
- dollar
- euro
- per cent
- two cents
References
- cent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- cent at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- NCTE, tecn-
Catalan
1,000 | ||||
← 90 | ← 99 | 100 | 144 → | 200 → |
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10 | ||||
Cardinal: cent Ordinal (Central): centè Ordinal (Valencian): centé Ordinal: centèsim Multiplier: cèntuple | ||||
Catalan Wikipedia article on 100 |
Etymology 1
From Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.
Pronunciation
- (standard)
- (before the words "anys", "homes", "hores") IPA(key): /ˈsent/
- (any other position) IPA(key): /ˈsen/
- (Valencian) and (Balearic) IPA(key): /ˈsent/
- Homophone: sent
- Rhymes: -ent
Numeral
cent m or f
- (cardinal number) hundred
Usage notes
- Catalan cardinal numbers may be used as masculine or feminine adjectives, except un/una (“1”), dos/dues (“2”), cents/centes (“100s”) and its compounds. When used as nouns, Catalan cardinal numbers are treated as masculine singular nouns in most contexts, but in expressions involving time such as la una i trenta (1:30) or les dues (two o'clock), they are feminine because the feminine noun hora has been elided.
Derived terms
- cent per cent
- per cent
Noun
cent m (plural cents)
- hundred
See also
- dos-cents m (“two hundred”), dues-centes f (“two hundred”)
- Old Catalan: doents (“two hundred”)
- tres-cents (“three hundred”)
- quatre-cents (“four hundred”)
- cinc-cents (“five hundred”)
- sis-cents (“six hundred”)
- set-cents (“seven hundred”)
- vuit-cents (“eight hundred”)
- nou-cents (“nine hundred”)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English cent. These senses of the word cent in Catalan derive from the inversion of meaning that took place in English where it was used to indicate one hundredth.
Noun
cent m (plural cents)
- (music) cent (a hundredth of a half step)
- (money) cent (a subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro)
Related terms
- cèntim (“a subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the base unit”)
Further reading
- “cent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “cent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “cent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “cent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
Either a borrowing from English cent or a shortened borrowed from French centime.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛnt/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: cent
- Rhymes: -ɛnt
Noun
cent f (plural centen, diminutive centje n)
- (money) cent, a subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of the Dutch guilder
- (money) cent, a subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro
Derived terms
- centiem
- dollarcent
- eurocent
- fluitje van een cent
- rooie cent
Descendants
- Afrikaans: sent
- Berbice Creole Dutch: sent
- → Caribbean Javanese: sèn
- → Indonesian: sen
- → Papiamentu: sèn, cens
- → Sranan Tongo: sensi
- → Caribbean Hindustani: señs
- → Saramaccan: seén
References
- Philippa, Marlies; Debrabandere, Frans; Quak, Arend; Schoonheim, Tanneke; van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
Esperanto
1,000 | ||||
← 90 | ← 99 | 100 | 200 → | 1,000 → |
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10 | ||||
Cardinal: cent Ordinal: centa Adverbial: cente Multiplier: centobla, centopa Fractional: centona, centono |
Etymology
From Latin centum. Doublet of cendo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [t͡sent]
- Audio:
(file) - Hyphenation: cent
Number
cent
- hundred
- 1907, L. L. Zamenhof (tr.), La revizoro, Paris: Esperantista Centra Librejo, translation of Ревизор by Nikolaj Vasiljeviĉ Gogol, Acto kvara:
- Ĉu vi, Pjotr Ivanoviĉ, ne havas cent rublojn?
- Do you, Pjotr Ivanovich, not have one hundred rubles?
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Derived terms
- ducent (“two hundred”)
- elcento, pocento, procento (“percent”)
- jarcento (“century”)
- kvarcent (“four hundred”)
- kvincent (“five hundred”)
- naŭcent (“nine hundred”)
- okcent (“eight hundred”)
- sepcent (“seven hundred”)
- sescent (“six hundred”)
- tricent (“three hundred”)
French
Etymology 1
1,000 | ||||
[a], [b] ← 90 | [a], [b] ← 99 | 100 | 200 → [a], [b] | 1,000 → |
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10 | ||||
Cardinal: cent Ordinal: centième Ordinal abbreviation: 100e, (now nonstandard) 100ème Multiplier: centuple | ||||
French Wikipedia article on 100 |
From Middle French cent, from Old French cent, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɑ̃/, (liaison) /sɑ̃t‿/
audio (file) - Homophones: cents, san, sang, sangs, sans, sens, sent
- Rhymes: -ɑ̃
Numeral
cent m (plural cents)
- hundred
Derived terms
- centaine
- centenaire
- centésimal
- centième
- centigrade
- centime
- cent pour cent
- cent sept ans
- centuple
- centupler
- cinq cents
- deux cents
- en un mot comme en cent
- faire les cent pas
- guerre de Cent Ans
- huit cents
- neuf cents
- pourcent
- quatre cents
- sept cents
- six cents
- trois cents
- un point fait à temps en épargne cent
Related terms
- centi-
Descendants
- → Garifuna: san
- Haitian Creole: san
See also
- deux cents (“two hundred”)
- trois cents (“three hundred”)
- quatre cents (“four hundred”)
- cinq cents (“five hundred”)
- six cents (“six hundred”)
- sept cents (“seven hundred”)
- huit cents (“eight hundred”)
- neuf cents (“nine hundred”)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English cent, itself from Old French.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛnt/, /sɛn/
- Homophone: cents
Noun
cent m (plural cents)
- (money) cent (one-hundredth of a dollar or of a euro)
- Synonym: centime
Synonyms
- (dollar): cenne (colloquial, Canada), sou (slang, North America)
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: san
- → Arabic: سنت (sant)
- → Garifuna: san
See also
- franc
- dollar
Further reading
- “cent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.
Numeral
cent
- hundred
Hungarian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈt͡sɛnt]
- Hyphenation: cent
- Rhymes: -ɛnt
Noun
cent (plural centek)
- (money) cent (a subunit of currency)
- (informal) centilitre
- Synonym: centiliter
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | cent | centek |
accusative | centet | centeket |
dative | centnek | centeknek |
instrumental | centtel | centekkel |
causal-final | centért | centekért |
translative | centté | centekké |
terminative | centig | centekig |
essive-formal | centként | centekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | centben | centekben |
superessive | centen | centeken |
adessive | centnél | centeknél |
illative | centbe | centekbe |
sublative | centre | centekre |
allative | centhez | centekhez |
elative | centből | centekből |
delative | centről | centekről |
ablative | centtől | centektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular | centé | centeké |
non-attributive possessive - plural | centéi | centekéi |
Possessive forms of cent | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | centem | centjeim |
2nd person sing. | cented | centjeid |
3rd person sing. | centje | centjei |
1st person plural | centünk | centjeink |
2nd person plural | centetek | centjeitek |
3rd person plural | centjük | centjeik |
Derived terms
- centes
- centnyi
- dollárcent
- eurócent
Further reading
- cent in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)
Ido
← 90 | ← 99 | 100 | 1,000 → | |
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10 | ||||
Cardinal: cent Ordinal: centesma Adverbial: centfoye Multiplier: centopla Fractional: centima |
Etymology 1
Back-formation from cento.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡sɛnt/
Numeral
cent
- hundred (100)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English cent, French cent, German Cent, Italian cent, Russian цент (cent), Spanish centavo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sent/, /t͡sent/
Noun
cent (plural cents or cent-i)
- (numismatics) cent
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English cent.
Noun
cent m (invariable)
- cent (US coin)
- euro cent (European coin)
Lombard
Etymology
From cento.
Numeral
cent
- hundred
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Numeral
cent
- hundred
Derived terms
- centen
Further reading
- Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 242.
Old French
Alternative forms
- çant
- ceint
- chent
Etymology
From Latin centum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tsent/, (late) /sãnt/
Numeral
100 | Previous: | nonante et nuef |
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Next: | cent et un |
cent m (oblique plural cenz or centz, nominative singular cenz or centz, nominative plural cent)
- one hundred
Descendants
- Middle French: cent
- French: cent (see there for further descendants)
- Walloon: cint
- → Dutch: cent (see there for further descendants)
- → English: cent (see there for further descendants)
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin centum or English cent.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡sɛnt/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnt
- Syllabification: cent
Noun
cent m anim
- cent
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | cent | centy |
genitive | centa | centów |
dative | centowi | centom |
accusative | centa | centy |
instrumental | centem | centami |
locative | cencie | centach |
vocative | cencie | centy |
Further reading
- cent in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- cent in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from English cent.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡sênt/
Noun
cȅnt m (Cyrillic spelling це̏нт)
- cent (hundredth of a dollar, euro, etc.)
- (music) cent (hundredth of a semitone)
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | cȅnt | cȅnti |
genitive | centa | cȇntā |
dative | centu | centima |
accusative | cȅnt | cente |
vocative | centu / cente | centi |
locative | centu | centima |
instrumental | centom | centima |
Spanish
Noun
cent m (plural cents)
- cent (subunit of euro)
- Synonym: céntimo
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English cent.
Noun
cent c
- cent; a subunit of currency
Declension
Declension of cent | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | cent | centen | cent | centen |
Genitive | cents | centens | cents | centens |
References
- Hur ska vi hantera euro?, Forskningscentralen för de inhemska språken, February 8, 2007
- Euro, Språkrådet, Veckans språkråd 2002