centesimus

Latin

**Latin numbers ^(edit)**
		1,000
← 90	^{[a], [b]} ← 99	C 100	200 →	1,000 →
		10
Cardinal: centum Ordinal: centēsimus Adverbial: centiēs, centiēns Proportional: centuplus, centumplus Multiplier: centumplex, centuplex, centiplex Distributive: centēnus Collective: centuria Fractional: centēsimus

Etymology

Probably from Old Latin *cēsimus (“hundredth”) (from Proto-Italic *kent-tamo-), remodelled after ordinal numbers like vicēsimus (“twentieth”). Surface analysis centum (“hundred”) +‎ -ēsimus (“-th”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɛnˈteː.sɪ.mʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃen̪ˈt̪ɛː.s̬i.mus]

Numeral

centēsimus (feminine centēsima, neuter centēsimum); first/second-declension numeral

hundredth

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	centēsimus	centēsima	centēsimum	centēsimī	centēsimae	centēsima
genitive	centēsimī	centēsimae	centēsimī	centēsimōrum	centēsimārum	centēsimōrum
dative	centēsimō	centēsimae	centēsimō	centēsimīs
accusative	centēsimum	centēsimam	centēsimum	centēsimōs	centēsimās	centēsima
ablative	centēsimō	centēsimā	centēsimō	centēsimīs
vocative	centēsime	centēsima	centēsimum	centēsimī	centēsimae	centēsima

Derived terms

centēsimō
- centēsimātiō

Descendants

→ Catalan: centèsim

Old French: centesme
- Middle French: centiesme
  - French: centième
→ Italian: centesimo
→ Portuguese: centésimo
→ Spanish: centésimo

References

“centesimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“centesimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
centesimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to reach one's hundredth year, to live to be a hundred: vitam ad annum centesimum perducere
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “centum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 108