Definitions for centums

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centums cen·tum

Spelling: [sen-tuh m]

IPA: /ˈsɛn təm/

Centums is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 169 anagrams from letters in centums (cemnstu).

Definitions for centums

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 centums

From Latin; See origin at hundred

Examples for centums

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

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

I have learnt 'centum plagas Spartana nobilitate concoquere.'

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

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

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