centavo
English
Etymology
From Spanish or Portuguese.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛnˈtɑːvoʊ/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: cen‧ta‧vo
Noun
centavo (plural centavos)
- Currency unit (hundredth of a peso) in Mexico.
- A similar subdenomination of various other currencies (in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and the Philippines).
- (historical) The former subdenomination of some other currencies (in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Puerto Rico, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Venezuela).
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sen.ta.vo/ ~ /sɛn.ta.vo/
- Hyphenation: cen‧ta‧vo
Noun
centavo m (plural centavos)
Italian
Etymology
From cento (“hundred”) + -avo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃenˈta.vo/
- Rhymes: -avo
- Hyphenation: cen‧tà‧vo
Noun
centavo m (plural centavi)
Anagrams
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
centavo m (definite singular centavoen, indefinite plural centavos or centavo, definite plural centavoene)
- a centavo
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
centavo m (plural centavoen)
- a centavo
Portuguese
Etymology
From cento (“hundred”) + -avo.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /sẽˈta.vu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /sẽˈta.vo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /sẽˈta.vu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /sẽˈta.bu/ [sẽˈta.βu]
- Rhymes: -avu, (Northern Portugal) -abu
- Hyphenation: cen‧ta‧vo
Noun
centavo m (plural centavos)
- cent (a hundredth of several monetary units, including the Brazilian real, the Portuguese escudo, and the Mozambican metical)
Related terms
Spanish
| 1,000 | ||||
| [a], [b] ← 90 | ← 99 | 100 | 200 → | 1,000 → |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | ||||
| Cardinal: cien, (before lower numerals) ciento Ordinal: centésimo Ordinal abbreviation: 100.º Multiplier: céntuplo Fractional: centésimo, centavo, céntimo | ||||
| Spanish Wikipedia article on 100 | ||||
Alternative forms
Etymology
From ciento (“hundred”) + -avo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /θenˈtabo/ [θẽn̪ˈt̪a.β̞o] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /senˈtabo/ [sẽn̪ˈt̪a.β̞o] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -abo
- Syllabification: cen‧ta‧vo
Adjective
centavo (feminine centava, masculine plural centavos, feminine plural centavas)
Noun
centavo m (plural centavos)
- (fractional number) hundredth
- cent (subunit of currency in US and other countries)
- Synonym: céntimo
Descendants
Further reading
- “centavo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024