Definitions for centum

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centum cen·tum

Spelling: [sen-tuh m]

IPA: /ˈsɛn təm/

Centum is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in centum (cemntu).

Definitions for centum

noun

1. one hundred.

adjective

1. belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family of languages that show distinctive preservation of the Proto-Indo-European labiovelars and that show a historical development of velar articulations, as the sounds (k) or [kh] /x/ (Show IPA) from Proto-Indo-European palatal phonemes. The centum branches are Germanic, Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, Anatolian, and Tocharian.

Origin of centum

From Latin; See origin at hundred

Examples for centum

Corium beluae, centum et viginti pedes longum, Romam misit Regulus.

I have learnt 'centum plagas Spartana nobilitate concoquere.'

Popular etymology identified the symbol with the initial letter of centum, "hundred."

Hujus Libri centum & viginti tantum Exemplaria impressa sunt impensis infrascriptorum.

centum deinde ex senioribus elegit, quorum consilio omnia ageret, quos senatores nominavit propter senectutem.

Such migration may possibly account for the appearance of a people using a centum language so far east as Turkestan.