centesimus

Latin

Latin numbers ^(edit)

		1,000
←  90	[a], [b] ←  99	C 100	200  →	1,000  →
		10
Cardinal: centum     Ordinal: centēsimus     Adverbial: centiēs, centiēns     Proportional: centuplus, centumplus     Multiplier: centumplex, centuplex, centumgeminus     Distributive: centēnus     Fractional: centēsimus

Etymology

Probably from Old Latin *cēsimus (“hundredth”) (from Proto-Italic *kent-tamo-), remodelled after ordinal numbers like vigēsimus (“twentieth”). Surface analysis centum (“hundred”) +‎ -ēsimus (“-th”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kenˈteː.si.mus/, [kɛn̪ˈt̪eːs̠ɪmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃenˈte.si.mus/, [t͡ʃen̪ˈt̪ɛːs̬imus]

Numeral

centēsimus (feminine centēsima, neuter centēsimum); first/second-declension numeral

1. hundredth

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	centēsimus	centēsima	centēsimum		centēsimī	centēsimae	centēsima
Genitive	centēsimī	centēsimae	centēsimī		centēsimōrum	centēsimārum	centēsimōrum
Dative	centēsimō		centēsimō		centēsimīs
Accusative	centēsimum	centēsimam	centēsimum		centēsimōs	centēsimās	centēsima
Ablative	centēsimō	centēsimā	centēsimō		centēsimīs
Vocative	centēsime	centēsima	centēsimum		centēsimī	centēsimae	centēsima

Derived terms

• centēsimō
  • centēsimātiō

Descendants

• → Catalan: centèsim

• Old French: centesme
  • Middle French: centiesme
    • French: centième
• → Italian: centesimo
• → Portuguese: centésimo
• → Spanish: centésimo

References

• “centesimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “centesimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• centesimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to reach one's hundredth year, to live to be a hundred: vitam ad annum centesimum perducere
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “centum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 108