cento

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.3 Anagrams 2 Galician 2.1 Numeral 2.1.1 Usage notes 3 Italian 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Pronunciation 3.3 Adjective 3.4 Noun 3.5 Related terms 3.6 See also 3.7 Anagrams

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Latin cento ‘patchwork garment’.

[edit] Noun

cento (plural centos or (obsolete) centones)

1. A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors.
   • 2007: Paradise Lost, as Teskey observes, is a cento, a vast echo chamber of classical texts, all twisted into new shapes. — William Poole, ‘Out of his Furrow’, London Review of Books 29:3, p. 16

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of cenot
• c-note

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[edit] Galician

[edit] Numeral

cento

1. combining form of cen (100).

[edit] 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.

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[edit] Italian

Italian cardinal numbers

<  99	100	101   >
Cardinal : cento     Ordinal : centesimo

[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Pronunciation

cènto, /ˈtʃɛnto/, /"tSEnto/

[edit] Adjective

cento m. and f. inv.

1. hundred

Italian cardinal numbers

<  101	102	103   >
Cardinal : cento

[edit] Noun

cento m. inv.

1. hundred

[edit] Related terms

[edit] See also

• Appendix:Italian numbers

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of cenot
• conte