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noun
one hundred.
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Centum
is always a great word to know.
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| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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adjective
belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family of languages that show distinctive preservation of the Proto-Indo-European labiovelars and that show a historical development of velar articulations, as the sounds (k) or [kh] , from Proto-Indo-European palatal phonemes. The centum branches are Germanic, Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, Anatolian, and Tocharian.
Compare satem.
Origin:
1900–05; < Latin, exemplifying in c- the outcome of IE palato-velar stops characteristic of the group
1900–05; < Latin, exemplifying in c- the outcome of IE palato-velar stops characteristic of the group
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| centum (ˈsɛntəm) | |
| —adj | |
| Compare satem denoting or belonging to the Indo-European languages in which original velar stops (k) were not palatalized, namely languages of the Hellenic, Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Anatolian, and Tocharian branches | |
| [Latin: | |
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