centrum

From Middle English centrum, from Latin centrum. Doublet of centre.

centrum (plural centra)

1. A centre.
2. (anatomy)
   1. The central body of a vertebra; the solid piece to which the arches and some other parts are or may be attached.
   2. The basis or fundamental portion of one of the cranial segments, regarded as analogous to vertebrae.
3. (seismology) The focus or place of origin of an earthquake.

Borrowed from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron), from κεντέω (kentéō).

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɛntrum]

centrum n

1. centre (of a city)

   Synonym: střed

   Antonyms: okraj, periferie

   Hotel se nachází v centru města. ― The hotel is located downtown

2. centre (place where activity occurs)

   Synonym: středisko

• “centrum”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “centrum”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “centrum”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Borrowed from Latin centrum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.trʏm/

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• Hyphenation: cen‧trum

centrum n (plural centra or centrums, diminutive centrumpje n)

1. the centre, middle of focal part (e.g. of activity)
2. (geometry) centre (UK)
3. a centre, centralised facility; also, gathering place
4. city centre, town centre

   Synonyms: binnenstad, stadscentrum, stadshart, stadskern

• centraal
• centreren

• Afrikaans: sentrum
• → Indonesian: sentra (from the plural)

Borrowed from Latin centrum (“centre”), from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron, “sharp point”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɛntrum]
• Hyphenation: cent‧rum
• Rhymes: -um

centrum (plural centrumok)

1. centre (the middle of)
2. centre (of a city)
3. centre (of an activity)
4. (geometry) centre
5. (politics) the Centre

• centrum in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• centrum in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

From Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron, “sharp point”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɛn.trũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛn̪.t̪rum]

centrum n (genitive centrī); second declension

1. center

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• centrālis

• “centrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "centrum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• centrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Learned borrowing from Latin centrum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛn.trum/

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• Rhymes: -ɛntrum
• Syllabification: cen‧trum

centrum n

1. centre (of a city)
2. centre (the middle part of)

   Synonym: środek

3. centre (of an activity)

   Synonym: ośrodek

4. (politics) the centre, centrism

• centrum in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• centrum in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Learned borrowing from Latin centrum.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sentrum]

centrum n

1. center (of a city)

• “centrum”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Borrowed from Latin centrum. Doublet of center.

• IPA^(key): /²sɛnːtrɵm/

• Audio:

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centrum n

1. centre; the middle of something
2. centre; place where a function or activity occurs
3. the central areas of a city or a suburb

• The various declensions are not tied to different meanings of the word, only a sign of the bewilderness of how best to fit this Latin word into Swedish.
• Swedish uses centrum for the shops at the centre of a suburb (Farsta) or small and medium-sized town (Uppsala), while the centre of a larger city (Stockholm) is often called city.

• i händelsernas centrum
• köpcentrum

• central
• centrera

From Latin centrum.

• IPA^(key): /dʒɛnt.ɾum/

centrum (definite accusative centrumu, plural centrumlar)

1. centre (central area of a city)