Centum
/ˈkɛn.tʊm/noun
Latin for "one hundred," used historically as a numeral and in linguistic classification.
Did you know?Centum comes from the same ancient root that gave English words like hundred, showing how a single prehistoric number-word split into wildly different forms across Indo-European languages.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*ḱm̥tóm
“one hundred”
Proto-Italic
Italic
*kmtom
“one hundred”
Old Latin
Latin
centum
“one hundred”
Classical Latin
Latin
centum
“one hundred”
Modern English
English
cent
“a coin worth one hundredth of a dollar; a hundredth part”