ciento

From Spanish ciento.

ciento

1. hundred.

cientō

1. third-person plural future active imperative of cieō

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθjento/ [ˈθjẽn̪.t̪o] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsjento/ [ˈsjẽn̪.t̪o] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: cien‧to
• Homophone: (Latin America) siento

ciento

1. one hundred (100) (only in compounds followed by lower numerals)

   Ciento dos personas vinieron.

   One hundred and two people came.

• See cien for usage of cien vs. ciento.

• → Cebuano: siyento
• → Chayuco Mixtec: ziendu
• → Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: ciento
• → Lake Miwok: ṣijénto
• → Tagalog: siyento

ciento m (plural cientos)

1. hundred (100 units of something)

   Compré dos cientos de manzanas.

   I bought two hundred apples.

   (literally, “I bought two hundreds of apples”)

2. (in the plural) hundreds (an indefinite number consisting of several hundred)

• “ciento”, 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