centuria
See also: centúria
Asturian
Etymology
Noun
centuria f (plural centuries)
- century (100 years)
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -urja
Noun
centuria f (plural centurie)
- century (Roman army unit)
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From centum (“one hundred”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kenˈtu.ri.a/, [kɛn̪ˈt̪ʊriä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃenˈtu.ri.a/, [t͡ʃen̪ˈt̪uːriä]
Noun
centuria f (genitive centuriae); first declension
- century, in its senses as
- any assembly of a hundred people or things
- any division into a hundred people or things
- (historical military) a company of Roman infantry, the smallest tactical division of a legion, originally of 100 men but later varying between 60 and 160
- (historical military) a company of auxiliary infantry equivalent to an Roman cohort, first established during the Imperial era.
- (historical units of measure) a unit of area
- (historical politics) a traditional division of the Roman people, allegedly established by Servius Tullius on the basis of property
- (figuratively) any similar division, regardless of number
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | centuria | centuriae |
Genitive | centuriae | centuriārum |
Dative | centuriae | centuriīs |
Accusative | centuriam | centuriās |
Ablative | centuriā | centuriīs |
Vocative | centuria | centuriae |
Meronyms
- (unit of soldiers): contubernium (1⁄10 centuria after 107 BC); manipulus (2 centuriae after c. 315 BC); cohors (6 centuriae after 107 BC), legio (notionally 60 centuriae)
- (unit of area): decempeda (1⁄57,600 centuria); clima (1⁄1600 centuria); actus (1⁄400 centuria); iugerum (1⁄200 centuria); heredium (1⁄100 centuria); saltus (4 centuriae)
- (political assembly): comitia centuriata (quorum of the 193 centuriae)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Albanian: centurie
- → Asturian: centuria
- → Catalan: centúria
- → Galician: centuria
- → German: Zenturie
- → Italian: centuria
- → Old French: centurie
- → Polish: centuria
- → Portuguese: centúria
- → Romanian: centurie
- → Russian: центу́рия (centúrija)
- → Spanish: centuria
References
- “centuria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “centuria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- centuria in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- centuria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to obtain many (few) votes in a century or tribe: multa (pauca) puncta in centuria (tribu) aliqua ferre
- to gain the vote of a century or tribe: centuriam, tribum ferre (Planc. 49)
- to be elected unanimousl: omnes centurias ferre or omnium suffragiis, cunctis centuriis creari
- to obtain many (few) votes in a century or tribe: multa (pauca) puncta in centuria (tribu) aliqua ferre
- “centuria”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- centuria in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “centuria”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Polish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
centuria f
- century (Roman army unit)
- centaury, any herb of the genus Centaurium
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
centuria f (plural centurias)
Synonyms
- (century): siglo m
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