centavo
English
Etymology
From Spanish or Portuguese.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛnˈtɑːvoʊ/
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
centavo (plural centavos)
- Currency unit (hundredth of a peso) in Mexico.
- A similar subdenomination of various other currencies (in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and the Philippines).
- (historical) The former subdenomination of some other currencies (in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Puerto Rico, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Venezuela).
French
Noun
centavo m (plural centavos)
- centavo
Italian
Etymology
From cento (“hundred”) + -avo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃenˈta.vo/
- Rhymes: -avo
- Hyphenation: cen‧tà‧vo
Noun
centavo m (plural centavi)
- centavo
Anagrams
- covante, vocante
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
centavo m (definite singular centavoen, indefinite plural centavos or centavo, definite plural centavoene)
- a centavo
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
centavo m (plural centavoen)
- a centavo
Portuguese
Etymology
From cento (“hundred”) + -avo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sẽˈta.vu/
- Rhymes: -avu, (Northern Portugal) -abu
- Hyphenation: cen‧ta‧vo
Noun
centavo m (plural centavos)
- cent (a hundredth of several monetary units, including the Brazilian real, the Portuguese escudo, and the Mozambican metical)
Related terms
- cêntimo
Spanish
1,000 | ||||
[a], [b] ← 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 | ||||
Spanish Wikipedia article on 100 |
Alternative forms
- ctvo.
Etymology
From ciento (“hundred”) + -avo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θenˈtabo/ [θẽn̪ˈt̪a.β̞o]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /senˈtabo/ [sẽn̪ˈt̪a.β̞o]
- Rhymes: -abo
- Syllabification: cen‧ta‧vo
Adjective
centavo (feminine centava, masculine plural centavos, feminine plural centavas)
- (fractional number) hundredth
- Synonyms: centésimo, céntimo
- una centava parte ― a hundredth part
Noun
centavo m (plural centavos)
- (fractional number) hundredth
- Synonyms: centésimo, céntimo
- siete centavos ― seven hundredths (7⁄100)
- cent (subunit of currency in US and other countries)
- Synonym: céntimo
Descendants
- → Catalan: centau
- → Catalan: centavo
Further reading
- “centavo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014