cent

See also: Cent, Cent., and cent-

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛnt
• enPR: sĕnt, IPA^(key): /sɛnt/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophones: scent, sent

Noun

Wikipedia

cent (plural cents or cent)

1. (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
2. (informal) A small sum of money.

   He blew every last cent.

3. (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
4. (money) A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).
5. (music) A hundredth of a half step.

Usage notes

• Due to the differing plural formats used in European languages, it is common to use the word cent as a plural throughout the Eurozone.

Synonyms

• (of a dollar): dollarcent
• (of a euro): eurocent
• (coin (Canada, US)): penny

Translations

subunit of currency in US and elsewhere

• Arabic: سنْت m (sant, sint)
• Bulgarian: цент m (cent)
• Catalan: centau m (for American continent coints), cèntim (ca) m (for the rest)
• Chinese: 分 (fēn)
• Czech: cent (cs)
• Dutch: cent (nl) m
• Esperanto: cendo
• Fijian: sede (fj)
• Finnish: sentti (fi)
• French: cent (fr) m, centime (fr) m
• German: Cent (de) m
• Greek: σεντ n (sent)
• Hebrew: סֶנְט (sent') m
• Hungarian: penny (hu)
• Italian: centesimo m
• Japanese: セント (ja) (sento)

• Korean: 센트 (senteu)
• Lithuanian: centas (lt) m
• Macedonian: цент m (cent)
• Navajo: łichííʼí, tsindáo
• Polish: cent (pl) m
• Portuguese: centavo (pt) m
• Russian: цент (ru) m (tsent)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: це̏нт m

  Roman: cȅnt m

• Spanish: centavo m, céntimo (es) m
• Swahili: senti (sw)
• Swedish: cent (sv) c
• Tagalog: pera (tl)
• Vietnamese: phần trăm (vi)

one-hundredth of a euro

• Bulgarian: цент m (cent)
• Catalan: cèntim (ca) m
• Finnish: sentti (fi)
• French: centime m
• German: Cent (de) m
• Greek: λεπτό (el) n (leptó)
• Icelandic: sent (is) n

• Macedonian: цент m (cent)
• Polish: eurocent (pl) m, cent (pl) m
• Portuguese: centavo (pt) m, cêntimo (pt) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: це̏нт m

  Roman: cȅnt m

• Swahili: senti (sw)

coin

• Finnish: sentti (fi)
• French: (of dollar) (pièce d'un) cent m; (of euro) (pièce d'un) centime m
• German: Cent (de) m

• Greek: ένα λεπτό n (éna leptó)
• Swahili: senti (sw)

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Translations to be checked

• Maori: hēneti

Related terms

• centennial
• centi-
• centipede
• centurion
• century

See also

• dollar
• euro
• per cent
• two cents

Abbreviation

cent

1. century

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Catalan

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard)

• (before a vowel) IPA^(key): /'sent/
• (before a consonant or a pause) IPA^(key): /'sen/

• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /'sent/
• Rhymes: -ent

Numeral

Catalan cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : cent     Ordinal : centè
Catalan Wikipedia article on cent

cent

1. (cardinal) hundred

Derived terms

• cent per cent
• per cent

Noun

cent m (plural cents)

1. hundred

Etymology 2

From English cent. These senses of the word cent in Catalan derive from the inversion of meaning that took place in English where it was used to indicate one hundredth.

Noun

cent m (plural cents)

1. (music) cent (a hundredth of a half step)
2. (money) cent (A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.)

Related terms

• cèntim (“A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the base unit.”)

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Dutch

Etymology

From Old French cent (“hundred”), from Latin centum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛnt

• audio

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /sɛnt/

Noun

cent m (plural centen, diminutive centje n)

1. (money) cent, a subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of the Dutch guilder.
2. (money) cent, a subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.

Derived terms

• centiem
• dollarcent
• eurocent

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Esperanto

Esperanto cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : cent     Ordinal : centa

Etymology

Latin centum

Number

cent

1. (cardinal) hundred.
   • 1907, L. L. Zamenhof (tr.), La revizoro, Paris: Esperantista Centra Librejo, translation of Ревизор by Nikolaj Vasiljeviĉ Gogol, Acto kvara:

     Ĉu vi, Pjotr Ivanoviĉ, ne havas cent rublojn?

     Do you, Pjotr Ivanovich, not have one hundred rubles?

Derived terms

• ducent
• tricent
• kvarcent
• kvincent
• sescent
• sepcent
• okcent
• naŭcent

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃(t)/
• Homophones: sang, sans, sens (from sentir)

Numeral

cent

1. hundred

Derived terms

• centaine
• centenaire
• centésimal
• centième
• centigrade
• centime
• pourcent

Related terms

• centi-

Noun

cent m (plural cents)

1. (money) cent (one-hundredth of a dollar or of a euro)

Synonyms

• (money): sou (slang)

See also

• franc

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Ido

Cardinal numeral

cent

1. a/one hundred (100)

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Italian

Noun

cent m (invariable)

1. cent (US coin)
2. euro cent (European coin)

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Old French

Alternative forms

• çant
• ceint
• chent

Etymology

From Latin centum.

Noun

cent m (oblique plural cens, nominative singular cens, nominative plural cent)

1. one hundred

Descendants

• French: cent

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin centum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡s̪ɛn̪t̪]

• audio

  (file)

Noun

cent m

1. cent

Declension

    declension of cent

	singular	plural
nominative	cent	centy
genitive	centa	centów
dative	centowi	centom
accusative	centa	centy
instrumental	centem	centami
locative	cencie	centach
vocative	cencie	centy

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsênt/

Noun

cȅnt m (Cyrillic spelling це̏нт)

1. cent (hundredth of a dollar, euro, etc.)
2. (music) cent (hundredth of a semitone)

Declension

    declension of cent

	singular	plural
nominative	cȅnt	cȅnti
genitive	centa	cȇntā
dative	centu	centima
accusative	cȅnt	cente
vocative	centu / cente	centi
locative	centu	centima
instrumental	centom	centima

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Swedish

Noun

cent c

1. cent; a subunit of currency

Declension

Declension of cent

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	cent	centen	cent	centen
genitive	cents	centens	cents	centens

References

• Hur ska vi hantera euro?, Forskningscentralen för de inhemska språken, February 8, 2007
• Euro, Språkrådet, Veckans språkråd 2002