centum

== English == === Alternative forms === Centum === Etymology 1 === Learned borrowing from Latin centum (“hundred”), attested at least since 1890s. Its use in linguistics is due to it being a canonical example of a word retaining an original velar stop, as opposed to Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬙𐬆𐬨 (satəm). Doublet of hundred and satem. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈkɛntəm/ IPA(key): (proscribed) /ˈsɛntəm/ Rhymes: -ɛntəm ==== Adjective ==== centum (not comparable) (Indo-European studies) Referring to an Indo-European language that did not produce sibilants from a series of Proto-Indo-European palatovelar stops. Antonym: satem ===== Derived terms ===== centumization === Etymology 2 === Calque of Sanskrit शतक (śataka, “a hundred; a satakam”). The latter meaning is attested at least since 1991 and is explained by 100-point academic grading in India. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈsɛntəm/ ==== Noun ==== centum (plural centums) (Sanskrit and other Indian philology) Satakam, set of one hundred verses connected by the same metre or topic. (India) Perfect score on a board examination. === See also === per centum === Anagrams === cutmen == Italian == === Adjective === centum (invariable) only used in lingua centum == Latin == === Alternative forms === Symbol: C === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *kəntom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Formal cognates include Sanskrit शत (śata), Old Church Slavonic съто (sŭto), and Old English hund (whence English hundred, with an attached suffix). Doublet of *suta. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkɛn.tũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛn.tum] === Numeral === centum (indeclinable) a hundred; 100 ==== Usage notes ==== The numeral centum behaves like an indeclinable adjective. See Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers for additional information. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== ==== See also ==== Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers === References === === Further reading === “centum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “centum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "centum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “centum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. == Romanian == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from Latin centum. === Adjective === centum m or n (feminine singular centumă, masculine plural centumi, feminine/neuter plural centume) centum ==== Declension ====