Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 299.centum on page 299
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centum hundred
centum is a Latin Adjective that primarily means hundred.
Definitions for centum
Wheelock's Latin
Adjective
- 1
a hundred
English derivatives:
cent centenary centennial centi- centigrade centimeter centipede centurion century bicentenary bicentennial sesquicentennial tercentenary
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adjective
- 1
(a) indecl. centum is regularly represented by the symbol c. A hundred. (b) (hyperb., or as a typically large number). (c) (in compound numbers).
Sentences with centum
Latin to English
Itaque centum Rōmānī mīlle Graecōs vīcērunt.Compare Therefore a hundred Romans conquered a thousand Greeks.
Librum brevem centum hōrīs scrīpsistī.Compare You (sg.) wrote a short book in a hundred hours.
Centum cīvēs laudāvērunt quī patriam servāverant.Compare They praised the hundred citizens who had saved the country.
Hī centum versūs nōbīs grātiās magnās agunt.Compare These one hundred verses give great thanks to us.
Dēnique hī centum cīvēs reī pūblicae auxilium ferant.Compare Finally, let these hundred citizens bear aid to the republic.
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 100.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 299.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 126.
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "centum (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 30, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/centum.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 100.centum on page 100
