cento

See also: Cento and çénto

English

Etymology

From Latin cento (“patchwork garment”).

Noun

cento (plural centos or centones)

A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors, or a poem containing individual lines from other poems.
- 1659, John Evelyn, “A Character of England, as It was Lately Presented in a Letter to a Nobleman of France. […] The Third Edition.”, in William Upcott, compiler, The Miscellaneous Writings of John Evelyn, […], London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1825, OCLC 40796236, page 156:
  But, S^r, I will no longer tire your patience w^th these monsters (the subject of every contemptuous pamphlet) then with the madness of the Anabaptists, Quakers, Fift Monarchy-men, and a cento of unheard of heresies besides, which, at present, deform the once renowned Church of England, and approach so little to the pretended Reformation, which we in France have been made to believe, that there is nothing more heavenly wide.
- 1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Rest Fenner […], OCLC 489762501:
  Now look out in the GRADUS for Purus, and you find as the first synonime, lacteus, for coloratus, and the first synonime is purpureus. I mention this by way of elucidating one of the most ordinary processes in the ferrumination of these Centos.
- 1915 September 1, Charles A. Graves, “The Forged Letter of General Lee”, in Southern Historical Society Papers, New Series, number 40, page 124:
  And Captain McCabe says: "I have always regarded the letter as a sort of 'cento' of odds and ends (badly put together) from Lee's genuine letters."
- 2007, William Poole, “Out of his Furrow”, in London Review of Books, volume 29, number 3, page 16:
  Paradise Lost, as Teskey observes, is a cento, a vast echo chamber of classical texts, all twisted into new shapes.

Derived terms

centoism
centoist
centonical
centonism

Anagrams

Conte, Conté, Noteć, c note, c-note, conté, cteno-, oncet, tecno-

Esperanto

Etymology

cent +‎ -o

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sento]
Audio:
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Rhymes: -ento
Hyphenation: cen‧to

Noun

cento (accusative singular centon, plural centoj, accusative plural centojn)

hundred, group of one hundred of something

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cento, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Numeral

cento

combining form of cen (100).

Usage notes

The indeclinable form cen means "one hundred" only. To say "one hundred one", the combining form cento is used, as cento un or cento unha. Likewise, "one hundred thirty" is cento trinta, and "one hundred fifty-four" is cento cincuenta e catro.

Interlingua

Noun

cento (plural centos)

hundred

Numeral

cento

a hundred

Derived terms

duo centos (“two hundred”)
quatro centos (“four hundred”)
cinque centos (“five hundred”)
novem centos (“nine hundred”)

Italian

**Italian numbers ^(edit)**
		1,000
← 90	← 99	100	101 → ^{[a], [b]}	200 →
		10
Cardinal: cento Ordinal: centesimo Ordinal abbreviation: 100º
Italian Wikipedia article on 100

Etymology

From Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛn.to/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɛnto
Hyphenation: cèn‧to

Numeral

cento (invariable)

hundred, one hundred

Derived terms

duecento (“two hundred”)
trecento (“three hundred”)
quattrocento (“four hundred”)
cinquecento (“five hundred”)
seicento (“six hundred”)
settecento (“seven hundred”)
ottocento (“eight hundred”)
novecento (“nine hundred”)

Related terms

centavo
centenario
centennale
centenne
centennio
centerbe
centesima
centesimale
centesimo
centiara
centigrado
centigrammo
centile
centilitro
centiloquio
centimano
centimetrare
centimetrato
centimetrico
centimetro
centinaio
centinodia
centodieci
centofoglie
centogambe
centometrista
centomila
centomillesimo
centone
centonervia
centopelle
centopiedi
centotredici
centouno
centumvirale
centumvirato
centumviro
centuplicare
centuplice
centuplo
centuria
centuriare
centurione
per cento

Anagrams

Conte, conte, tecno-

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈken.toː/, [ˈkɛn̪t̪oː]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃen.to/, [ˈt͡ʃɛn̪t̪o]

Noun

centō m (genitive centōnis); third declension

A garment of several pieces sewed together; a patchwork
A cap worn under the helmet

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	centō	centōnēs
Genitive	centōnis	centōnum
Dative	centōnī	centōnibus
Accusative	centōnem	centōnēs
Ablative	centōne	centōnibus
Vocative	centō	centōnēs

Descendants

Italian: cencio

References

“cento”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“cento”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
cento in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
“cento”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“cento”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

**Portuguese numbers ^(edit)**
		1,000
← 90	← 99	100	200 →	1,000 →
		10
Cardinal: (alone or followed by a noun or higher numeral) cem, (followed by a lower numeral) cento Ordinal: centésimo Ordinal abbreviation: 100.º Multiplier: cêntuplo Fractional: centésimo, cem avos

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cento, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsẽ.tu/

Hyphenation: cen‧to
Homophone: sento
Rhymes: -ẽtu

Numeral

cento m or f

one hundred (only in compounds followed by lower numerals)
Cento e duas pessoas vieram.
One hundred and two people came.

Usage notes

See cem for usage of cem vs. cento.

Noun

cento m (plural centos)

hundred (100 units of something)
Comprei dois centos de maçãs.
I bought two hundred apples.
(literally, “I bought two hundreds of apples”)