centum
1one hundred.
Origin of centum
1Words Nearby centum
Other definitions for centum (2 of 2)
belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family of languages that preserve the Proto-Indo-European labiovelar stops but merge the palatal stops into the velar stops. The centum branches include Germanic, Celtic, Italic, and Hellenic.
Origin of centum
2- Compare satem.
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How to use centum in a sentence
Where such cases occur, patients should be fully prepared for the worst As a rule, the mortality is from 40 to 70 per centum.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyTwenty-five per centum of all women over 60 years of age are found to have gall-stones.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyIt does more: in 90 per centum of cases it will prevent successful infection with smallpox.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyCoins should be boiled, and paper money should be dipped in the 10 per centum carbolic acid solution and dried at a stove.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyAt least 70 per centum of the patients affected show a family history of insanity in some forms.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin Malley
British Dictionary definitions for centum
/ (ˈsɛntəm) /
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: Compare satem
Origin of centum
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