centurion

From Middle English centurioun, from Latin centuriō, centuriōnis (“a commander of a hundred, centurion”), from Latin centum (“a hundred”). Displaced native English hundreder and hundredman, from Middle English hundredman, from Old English hundredmann (“centurion”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sɛnˈtjʊəɹ.i.ən/, /sɛnˈtʃʊəɹ.i.ən/, /-ɔːɹ.i.ən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sɛnˈtjʊɹ.i.ən/, /sɛnˈtʊɹ.i.ən/, /-ɚ.i.ən/

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centurion (plural centurions)

1. (historical) An officer of the ancient Roman army, in command of a century of soldiers.
   • 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 5:

     “Man,” said the largest, most protective of the Praetorian guard, her lover, no doubt, and her peroxide-blond centurion, “for an apostle of peace you sure are filled up with war.”

2. (cricket) A player who scores a century.
3. (US) A pilot in the United States Navy who has performed 100 night landings on an aircraft carrier.

• (an officer commanding 100 or so men): centenier, centenary (obsolete), hundreder, hundredman

• centurion syndrome
• centurion's staff

• century

• continuer, incounter, neutronic

Borrowed from Latin centuriōnem. By surface analysis, centurie +‎ -on.

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃.ty.ʁjɔ̃/

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centurion m (plural centurions)

1. (Ancient Rome, military) centurion (Roman officer)

• centurie

• “centurion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• continuer

From Latin centurio.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sɛnˈtu.rjɔn/

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• Rhymes: -urjɔn
• Syllabification: cen‧tu‧rion

centurion m pers

1. (historical) centurion

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

Borrowed from Latin centurio.

centurion m (plural centurioni)

1. centurion

Borrowed from Latin centuriō.

• IPA^(key): /t͡senturǐoːn/
• Hyphenation: cen‧tu‧ri‧on

centurìōn m anim (Cyrillic spelling центурѝо̄н)

1. centurion (Roman officer)

• “centurion”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025