centésimo

See also: centesimo

English

Noun

centésimo (plural centésimos)

1. Alternative form of centesimo (“monetary unit in Uruguay, Panama and (formerly) Chile”).
   • 1924, T[homas] S[igismund] Stribling, Red Sand, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, page 218:

     I knew you were waiting for somebody or something, a woman, a baggage, some señorita who doesn’t care two centésimos for you and is after your bolivars!

   • 1973, Theodore V[ern] Buttrey, Jr., “[The Spanish Tradition] The Spanish American Republics”, in Coinage of the Americas, New York, N.Y.: The American Numismatic Society, →LCCN, page 59:

     A coinage of bronze centésimos had been struck in Lyons, Paris, and Birmingham between 1840 and 1869, but only in 1877 was a proper coinage of silver 10, 20, and 50 centésimos, and 1 peso struck to the specifications of the Latin Monetary Union.

   • 2013, Kenneth Cameron, The Haunted Martyr, Rearsby, Leics.: W F Howes Ltd, →ISBN, page 186:

     The Signora, overseeing the process, was scandalised all over again and flew into a rage when Janet offered her one centésimo, the smallest bit of money that was made.

Asturian

Adjective

centésimo

1. neuter of centésimu

Portuguese

Portuguese numbers ^(edit)

		1,000
←  90	←  99	100	200  →	1,000  →
		10
Cardinal: cem, (before lower numerals) cento     Ordinal: centésimo     Ordinal abbreviation: 100.º, 100º     Multiplier: cêntuplo     Fractional: centésimo, cem avos

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sẽˈtɛ.zi.mu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sẽˈtɛ.zi.mu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /sẽˈtɛ.zi.mo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sẽˈtɛ.zi.mu/

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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• Rhymes: -ɛzimu
• Hyphenation: cen‧té‧si‧mo

Adjective

centésimo (feminine centésima, masculine plural centésimos, feminine plural centésimas)

1. (ordinal number) hundredth

Noun

centésimo m (plural centésimos)

1. (fractional number) hundredth (one of one hundred parts of a whole)

Further reading

• “centésimo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “centésimo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Spanish numbers ^(edit)

		1,000
←  90	←  99	100	200  →	1,000  →
		10
Cardinal: cien, (before lower numerals) ciento     Ordinal: centésimo     Ordinal abbreviation: 100.º     Multiplier: céntuplo     Fractional: centésimo, centavo, céntimo
Spanish Wikipedia article on 100

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θenˈtesimo/ [θẽn̪ˈt̪e.si.mo] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /senˈtesimo/ [sẽn̪ˈt̪e.si.mo] (Latin America, Philippines)

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -esimo
• Syllabification: cen‧té‧si‧mo

Adjective

centésimo (feminine centésima, masculine plural centésimos, feminine plural centésimas)

1. (ordinal number) hundredth

Noun

centésimo m (plural centésimos)

1. (fractional number) hundredth
2. cent (one hundredth of a currency unit) for the Panamanian balboa and Uruguayan peso

   Synonyms: centavo, céntimo

Further reading

• “centésimo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025