cien

cien

1. Obsolete spelling of scion.

• Ince, NICE, Nice, Niec, cine, cine-, icen, nice

• cientu (combining form only)

From cientu, from Old Leonese, from Latin centum.

cien (indeclinable)

1. one hundred; 100

   cien llobos — one hundred wolves

   cien vaques — one hundred cows

The indeclinable form cien means "one hundred" only. To say "one hundred one", the combining form cientu is used, as cientu un. Likewise, "one hundred thirty" is cientu trenta, and "one hundred fifty-four" is cientu cincuenta y cuatro.

• centenu

From Old Leonese, from Latin centum.

cien

1. one hundred

• IPA^(key): [t͡si̯en]

cien

1. genitive plural of cena

From ciento, from Latin centum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθjen/ [ˈθjẽn] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsjen/ [ˈsjẽn] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -en
• Syllabification: cien
• Homophone: (Latin America) sien

cien

1. one hundred (100)

• cien is used when standing alone as a numeral:

  de uno hasta el cien ― from one to one hundred

  hay dos cienes en el papel ― there are two hundreds (occurrences of the number "one hundred") on the paper

• cien is used when followed by a noun:

  cien personas ― one hundred people

• cien is used when followed by a higher numeral:

  cien mil ― one hundred thousand

  cien millones ― one hundred million

• ciento is used when followed by a lower numeral:

  ciento dos personas ― one hundred and two people

• ciento is used as a noun referring to 100 units of something:

  dos cientos de manzanas ― two hundred apples (literally, “two hundred units of apples”)

• In the indefinite sense, ciento is used:

  cientos de pesos ― hundreds of pesos

• To indicate percentages, ciento is usually used, with regional exceptions, especially for 100%:

  cincuenta por ciento ― fifty percent

  cien por ciento ― one hundred percent

• → Cebuano: siyen
• → Taos: si̋en, si̋eną

• “cien”, 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

Borrowed from Chinese 千 (MC tshen).

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ɕiːn˨˦/
• Tone numbers: cien¹
• Hyphenation: cien

cien (1957–1982 spelling cien)

1. thousand