cento

Etymology

From Latin cento (“patchwork garment”).

Noun

cento (plural centos or centones)

1. A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors, or a poem containing individual lines from other poems.
   • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

     Now look out in the GRADUS for Purus, and you find as the first synonime, lacteus, for coloratus, and the first synonime is purpureus. I mention this by way of elucidating one of the most ordinary processes in the ferrumination of these Centos.

   • 1915 September 1, Charles A. Graves, “The Forged Letter of General Lee”, in Southern Historical Society Papers, New Series, number 40, page 124:

     And Captain McCabe says: "I have always regarded the letter as a sort of 'cento' of odds and ends (badly put together) from Lee's genuine letters."

   • 2007, William Poole, “Out of his Furrow”, in London Review of Books, volume 29, number 3, page 16:

     Paradise Lost, as Teskey observes, is a cento, a vast echo chamber of classical texts, all twisted into new shapes.

Anagrams

• Conté, Noteć, c note, c-note, oncet, tecno-

Etymology

cent +‎ -o

Pronunciation

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Noun

cento (accusative singular centon, plural centoj, accusative plural centojn)

1. hundred, group of one hundred of something

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cento, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Numeral

cento

1. combining form of cen (100).

Noun

cento (plural centos)

1. hundred

Numeral

cento

1. (cardinal) a hundred

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• cènto, IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɛnto/

Adjective

cento m, f (invariable)

1. hundred

Noun

cento m (invariable)

1. (cardinal) hundred

Related terms

See also

• Appendix:Italian numbers

Anagrams

• conte

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κέντρων (kéntrōn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈken.toː/, [ˈkɛn.toː]

Noun

centō m (genitive centōnis); third declension

1. A garment of several pieces sewed together; a patchwork
2. A cap worn under the helmet

References

• cento in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cento in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cento in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cento in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cento in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cento, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsẽ.tu/
• Homophone: sento
• Hyphenation: cen‧to

Adjective

cento m, f

1. (only in compounds) one hundred

   Cento e duas pessoas vieram.

   One hundred and two people came.

Noun

cento m (plural centos)

1. hundred (100 units of something)

   Comprei dois centos de maçãs.

   I bought two hundred apples. (literally: I bought two hundreds of apples)