centuria

Borrowed from Latin centuria.

centuria f (plural centuries)

1. century (100 years)

Borrowed from Latin centuria.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃenˈtu.rja/
• Rhymes: -urja
• Hyphenation: cen‧tù‧ria

centuria f (plural centurie)

1. century (Roman army unit)

• centauri, cunterai, incuterà, rutenica

*centu-viria, from centum (“one hundred”) +‎ vir (“man”) +‎ -ia.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɛnˈtʊ.ri.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃen̪ˈt̪uː.ri.a]

centuria f (genitive centuriae); first declension

1. century, in its senses as
   1. any assembly of a hundred people or things
   2. any division into a hundred people or things
   3. (historical military) a company of Roman infantry, the smallest tactical division of a legion, originally of 100 men but later varying between 60 and 160
   4. (historical military) a company of auxiliary infantry equivalent to a Roman cohort, first established during the Imperial era.
   5. (historical units of measure) a unit of area, equal to 100 heredia or 200 iugera (approximately 125 acres or 50  hectares)
   6. (historical politics) a traditional division of the Roman people, allegedly established by Servius Tullius on the basis of property
2. (figuratively) any similar division, regardless of number

First-declension noun.

• (unit of soldiers): contubernium (¹⁄₁₀ centuria after 107 BC); manipulus (2 centuriae after c. 315 BC); cohors (6 centuriae after 107 BC), legio (notionally 60 centuriae)
• (unit of area): decempeda (¹⁄_57,600 centuria); clima (¹⁄₁₆₀₀ centuria); actus (¹⁄₄₀₀ centuria); iugerum (¹⁄₂₀₀ centuria); heredium (¹⁄₁₀₀ centuria); saltus (4 centuriae)
• (political assembly): comitia centuriata (quorum of the 193 centuriae)

• centuriālis
• centuriātim
• centuriō

• centum

• “centuria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “centuria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "centuria", 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)
• centuria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to obtain many (few) votes in a century or tribe: multa (pauca) puncta in centuria (tribu) aliqua ferre
    
  • to gain the vote of a century or tribe: centuriam, tribum ferre (Planc. 49)
    
  • to be elected unanimousl: omnes centurias ferre or omnium suffragiis, cunctis centuriis creari
    
• “centuria”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• centuria in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “centuria”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• cencuria (Przemyśl)

Learned borrowing from Latin centuria.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sɛnˈtu.rja/

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• Rhymes: -urja
• Syllabification: cen‧tu‧ria

centuria f

1. century (Roman army unit)
2. centaury (any herb of the genus Centaurium)

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

Borrowed from Latin centuria.

• IPA^(key): /θenˈtuɾja/ [θẽn̪ˈt̪u.ɾja] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /senˈtuɾja/ [sẽn̪ˈt̪u.ɾja] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -uɾja
• Syllabification: cen‧tu‧ria

centuria f (plural centurias)

1. century (Roman army unit)

   Synonym: siglo

2. (poetic) century (period)

• “centuria”, 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