Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Designating those Indo-European languages, including the Italic, Hellenic, Celtic, and Germanic branches, that merged the palatal velar stops with the plain velars k, g, gh and maintained a distinction between them and the labiovelars kw, gw, gwh.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A hundred: used in the phrase per centum, by the hundred.

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  • adjective linguistics referring to a Proto-Indo-European language group that did not produce sibilants from a series of palatovelar stops.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin, hundred (a word whose initial sound in classical Latin illustrates the preservation of the Indo-European palatal velar as a velar k); see dekm̥ in Indo-European roots.]

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Latin centum ("hundred"), the canonical example of a word retaining an original velar stop, as opposed to Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬙𐬇𐬩 (satəm).

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Examples

  • Another strange and surprising example is the fact that the English word hundred and its Russian equivalent sto are also clearly connected with each other, and also with the various forms that Latin centum has developed into in the Romance languages.

    Surprising etymology 2005

  • Another strange and surprising example is the fact that the English word hundred and its Russian equivalent sto are also clearly connected with each other, and also with the various forms that Latin centum has developed into in the Romance languages.

    Surprising etymology 2005

  • The amendment would first of all remove the Latin "centum" from Article IV of the state constitution and replaced it with the more 'Merkin "cent."

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • Whence it would appear that either the word "centum," a hundred, had slipped by mistake from Calvin's pen; or which is more probably, that, though the two Latin editions before the Editor, have the mistake, the more early ones were free from it.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • And the whole amount of the sums so to be assessed upon dwelling houses and slaves within each state respectively, shall be deducted from the sum hereby apportioned each state, and the remainder of the sum shall be assessed upon the lands within such state according to the valuations to be made pursuant to the act aforesaid, and at such per centum as will be sufficient to produce the said remainder ...

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Health Care Mandate a Direct Tax? 2010

  • And the whole amount of the sums so to be assessed upon dwelling houses and slaves within each state respectively, shall be deducted from the sum hereby apportioned each state, and the remainder of the sum shall be assessed upon the lands within such state according to the valuations to be made pursuant to the act aforesaid, and at such per centum as will be sufficient to produce the said remainder ...

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Health Care Mandate a Direct Tax? 2010

  • And the whole amount of the sums so to be assessed upon dwelling houses and slaves within each state respectively, shall be deducted from the sum hereby apportioned each state, and the remainder of the sum shall be assessed upon the lands within such state according to the valuations to be made pursuant to the act aforesaid, and at such per centum as will be sufficient to produce the said remainder...

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Health Care Mandate a Direct Tax? 2010

  • And the whole amount of the sums so to be assessed upon dwelling houses and slaves within each state respectively, shall be deducted from the sum hereby apportioned each state, and the remainder of the sum shall be assessed upon the lands within such state according to the valuations to be made pursuant to the act aforesaid, and at such per centum as will be sufficient to produce the said remainder...

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Health Care Mandate a Direct Tax? 2010

  • The word“cent,” ultimately from the Latin centum, was used in English to mean “hundred” before the year1400, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

    The Grammarphobia Blog » Blog Archive » Franglais speaking 2010

  • New video: "Hackers Interrupt Buccaneers Promo" - don't miss a single thrilling centum!

    Random Caprican Culture 2010

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