centenar

centenar (plural centenars)

1. (historical, military) During the Hundred Years' War, a commander of one hundred infantry.

• enneract, entrance, rectenna

From centè +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [sən.təˈna]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [sen.teˈnaɾ]

centenar m (plural centenars)

1. a set of one hundred like objects

   Prop d'un centenar de persones es van congregar ahir a la plaça Sant Jaume.

   Nearly a hundred people came together yesterday at the Plaça Sant Jaume.

2. a quantity of approximately one hundred
3. (historical, military) in the armies of Catalonia before the Nueva Planta decrees, a company of one hundred men

• Centenar is used to express quantities expressed to a precision of the nearest hundred, or a set of one hundred. For the number one hundred exactly, cent is used.

• “centenar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from Latin centenarius.

centenar n (plural centenare)

1. centenary

From centena +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /θenteˈnaɾ/ [θẽn̪.t̪eˈnaɾ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /senteˈnaɾ/ [sẽn̪.t̪eˈnaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cen‧te‧nar

centenar m (plural centenares)

1. a unit of one hundred objects

   Synonym: centena

• “centenar”, 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