cêntimo

Unadapted borrowing from Portuguese cêntimo.

cêntimo (plural cêntimos)

1. Alternative form of centimo in Portuguese context.
   • 1985, Quarterly Economic Review of Angola, São Tomé & Principe, number 1, London: Economist Intelligence Unit, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 34:

     The Portuguese escudo was replaced by a national currency, the dobra (divided into 100 cêntimos), in September 1977.

   • 2010, Ke Huang, “Lullaby: Barcarole”, in The One Million Stories Creative Writing Project 2010 Anthology, One Million Stories Small Press, →ISBN, page 85:

     What do you mean 'too much education?' I won't spend a cêntimo of your precious money. I'll go if I get a scholarship.

   • 2014, José Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, chapter 31, in Skylight, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 249:

     Paulino, you say you believe what’s in that letter, and you, my mother, find me accused of having an affair with a young man who, I imagine, hasn’t a cêntimo to his name. So why don’t you both just leave?

From French centime.

• Hyphenation: cên‧ti‧mo

cêntimo m (plural cêntimos)

1. cent (a subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries)
   1. cent (one-hundredth of a euro)

• euro