cent

See also: Cent, Cent., and cent-

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

cent

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

(abbreviations): cent.

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥

Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm

Proto-Italic *kəntom

Latin centum

Old French centbor.

Middle English cent

English cent

From Middle English cent, from Old French cent, from Latin centum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɛnt
enPR: sĕnt, IPA^(key): /sɛnt/
Audio (US): (file)
Homophones: scent, sent

Noun

English Wikipedia has an article on:

cent (currency)

Wikipedia

cent (plural cents or cent)

(money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
- 2015 November 22, “Pennies”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 35, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
  It's true. 1.7 cents to make 1 cent. That really makes the phrase “you have to spend money to make money” ring painfully true.
(informal) A small sum of money.
He blew every last cent.
- 1990, Lou Sullivan, From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland, →ISBN, page 10:
  Every cent aside from his own expenses for the barest kind of living went to his down-and-out buddies.
(money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
(money) A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).
(music) A hundredth of a semitone or half step.
(nuclear physics) A unit of reactivity equal to one hundredth of a dollar.
Abbreviation of century.
(obsolete, except in per cent and cent percent) Abbreviation of Latin centum (“one hundred”).
- c. 1450, Octouian Imperator (Octavian), lines 1463-4:
  And broght with hem many stout cent / Of green lordynges.
- 1733, Alexander Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle III to Allen, Lord Bathurst, 372:
  The demon makes his full descent / In one abundant shower of cent per cent.
Abbreviation of centigrade.
Abbreviation of center.

Usage notes

Due to the differing plural formats used in European languages, it is common to use the word cent as a plural throughout the Eurozone.

Synonyms

(of a dollar): dollarcent
(of a euro): Eurocent
(coin (Canada, US)): penny

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

→ Catalan: cent
Chinese:
- → Cantonese: 仙 (sin¹)
- → Min Nan: 仙 (sian)
→ French: cent
→ Georgian: ცენტი (cenṭi)
→ Hebrew: סנט (sent)
→ Italian: cent
→ Korean: 센트 (senteu)
→ Malay: sen
→ Polish: cent
→ Samoan: sene
- → English: sene
→ Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: це̏нт
- Latin script: cȅnt
→ Swahili: senti
→ Swedish: cent
→ Tausug: sīn
Tok Pisin: sen
- → Rotokas: sieri
→ Yakan: sīn

Translations

subunit of currency in US and elsewhere

Ahtna: tsedi dicaaxi
Albanian: cent (sq) m
Aleut: siintax̂
Arabic: سِنْت m (sint), سَنْت m (sant)
Armenian: ցենտ (hy) (cʻent)
Asturian: centavu (ast) m, céntimu (ast) m
Azerbaijani: sent
Bajau:
West Coast Bajau: sin
Belarusian: цэнт m (cent)
Bengali: সেন্ট (bn) (śenṭo)
Bulgarian: цент (bg) m (cent)
Burmese: ဆင့် (my) (hcang.)
Catalan: centau (ca) m (for American continent coins), cèntim (ca) m (for the rest)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 仙 (yue) (sin¹), 分 (fan¹), 厘 (lei⁴)

Hakka: 分 (fûn)

Hokkien: 分 (zh-min-nan) (hun), 針 / 针 (chiam)

Mandarin: 分 (zh) (fēn)
Czech: cent (cs)
Danish: cent (da) c
Dutch: cent (nl) m
Esperanto: cendo
Estonian: sent (et)
Faroese: sent n
Fijian: sede (fj)
Finnish: sentti (fi)
French: cent (fr) m, centime (fr) m, sou (fr) m (Canada, informal)
Galician: céntimo (gl) m
Georgian: ცენტი (cenṭi)
German: Cent (de) m
Greek: σεντ (el) n (sent)
Hebrew: סֶנְט (he) m (sent)
Hindi: सेंट (hi) (seṇṭ)
Hungarian: penny (hu), cent (hu)
Indonesian: sen (id)
Irish: ceint m
Italian: centesimo (it) m
Japanese: セント (ja) (sento), 仙 (ja) (セント, sento)
Kazakh: цент (cent)
Khmer: សេន (km) (seen)
Korean: 센트 (senteu), 전 (ko) (jeon)
Kyrgyz: цент (tsent)
Lao: ເຊັນ (sen)
Latvian: cents m
Lithuanian: centas (lt) m
Louisiana Creole: pinné, sou, éskalin
Macedonian: цент m (cent)
Malay: sen (ms)
Melanau:
Central Melanau: sin
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: цент (cent)

Mongolian script: ᠼᠧᠨᠲ᠋ (cēnt)
Navajo: łichííʼí, tsindáo
Norwegian:
Bokmål: cent (no) m
Persian: سنت (fa) (sent)
Plautdietsch: Zent n
Polish: cent (pl) m
Portuguese: cêntimo (pt) m
Romanian: cent (ro) m
Russian: цент (ru) m (cent)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: це̏нт m

Latin: cȅnt (sh) m
Slovak: cent (sk) m
Slovene: cent m
Spanish: centavo (es) m, céntimo (es) m, centésimo (es) m
Swahili: senti (sw)
Swedish: cent (sv) c
Tagalog: pera (tl)
Tajik: сент (sent)
Thai: เซ็นต์ (sen)
Turkish: sent (tr)
Turkmen: sent
Ukrainian: цент (uk) m (cent)
Urdu: سینٹ (senṭ)
Uyghur: سىنىت (sinit)
Uzbek: sent (uz)
Vietnamese: phần trăm (vi)
Yiddish: סענט m (sent)

one-hundredth of a euro

Asturian: céntimu (ast) m
Bajau:
West Coast Bajau: sin
Bulgarian: цент (bg) m (cent), е́вростоти́нка f (évrostotínka), е́врости́нка f (évrostínka) (colloquial), леври́нка f (levrínka) (colloquial), стоти́нка f (stotínka)
Catalan: cèntim (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 歐仙 / 欧仙 (au¹ sin¹)

Mandarin: 歐分 / 欧分 (zh) (ōufēn)
Faroese: sent n
Finnish: sentti (fi)
French: centime (fr) m
German: Cent (de) m
Greek: λεπτό (el) n (leptó)
Hungarian: cent (hu), eurócent
Icelandic: sent (is) n
Indonesian: sen (id)
Irish: cent
Japanese: セント (ja) (sento), セントユーロ (sentoyūro)
Korean: 센트 (senteu), 유로센트 (yurosenteu)
Macedonian: цент m (cent)
Malay: sen (ms)
Melanau:
Central Melanau: sin
Polish: eurocent (pl) m, cent (pl) m
Portuguese: centavo (pt) m, cêntimo (pt) m
Russian: цент (ru) m (cent)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: це̏нт m

Latin: cȅnt (sh) m
Swahili: senti (sw)
Swedish: cent (sv) c

coin

Bulgarian: стоти́нка f (stotínka), цент (bg) m (cent)
Finnish: sentti (fi)
French: cent m (of dollar), pièce d'un cent f (of dollar), centime m (of euro), pièce d'un centime f (of euro), cenne noire (fr) f (Canada, informal), sou noir m (Canada, informal)
German: Cent (de) m
Greek: ένα λεπτό n (éna leptó)
Hindi: सेंट (hi) m (seṇṭ)
Hungarian: egycentes (hu)
Irish: cent, ceint m
Italian: soldino m
Polish: cent (pl) m
Russian: цент (ru) m (cent)
Swahili: senti (sw)
Swedish: cent (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Māori: ^{(please verify)} hēneti

References

William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “cent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
“cent”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

NCTE, tecn-

Catalan

**Catalan numbers ^(edit)**
		1,000
← 90	← 99	100	144 →	200 →
		10
Cardinal: cent Ordinal: centèsim Ordinal (Central): centè Ordinal (Valencian): centé Multiplier: cèntuple
Catalan Wikipedia article on 100

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kəntom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

(Central)
- (before the words "anys", "homes", "hores") IPA^(key): /ˈsent/
- (any other position) IPA^(key): /ˈsen/
(Valencia) and (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈsent/
Homophone: sent
Rhymes: -ent

Numeral

cent m or f

(cardinal number) hundred

Usage notes

Catalan cardinal numbers may be used as masculine or feminine adjectives, except un/una (“1”), dos/dues (“2”), cents/centes (“100s”) and its compounds. When used as nouns, Catalan cardinal numbers are treated as masculine singular nouns in most contexts, but in expressions involving time such as la una i trenta (1:30) or les dues (two o'clock), they are feminine because the feminine noun hora has been elided.

Derived terms

Noun

cent m (plural cents)

hundred

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English cent. These senses of the word cent in Catalan derive from the inversion of meaning that took place in English where it was used to indicate one hundredth.

Noun

cent m (plural cents)

(music) cent (a hundredth of a half step)
(money) cent (a subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro)

Related terms

cèntim (“a subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the base unit”)

Dutch

Etymology

Either a borrowing from English cent or a shortened borrowed from French centime.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sɛnt/
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: cent
Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

cent f (plural centen, diminutive centje n)

(money) cent, a subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of the Dutch guilder
(money) cent, a subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro

Derived terms

Descendants

Afrikaans: sent
Berbice Creole Dutch: sent
→ Caribbean Javanese: sèn
→ Indonesian: sen
→ Papiamentu: sèn, cens
→ Sranan Tongo: sensi
- → Caribbean Hindustani: señs
- → Saramaccan: seén

References

^ Philippa, Marlies; Debrabandere, Frans; Quak, Arend; Schoonheim, Tanneke; van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009), Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

Esperanto

**Esperanto numbers ^(edit)**
		1,000
← 90	← 99	100	200 →	1,000 →
		10
Cardinal: cent Ordinal: centa Adverbial: cente Multiplier: centobla, centopa Fractional: centona, centono

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥

Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm

Proto-Italic *kəntom

Latin centumder.

Esperanto cent

Derived from Latin centum. Doublet of cendo.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡sent/
Audio 1: (file)
Audio 2: (file)
Audio 3: (file)
Rhymes: -ent
Syllabification: cent

Number

cent

hundred
- 1907, L. L. Zamenhof (tr.), La revizoro, Paris: Esperantista Centra Librejo, translation of Ревизор by Nikolaj Vasiljeviĉ Gogol, Acto kvara:
  Ĉu vi, Pjotr Ivanoviĉ, ne havas cent rublojn?
  Do you, Pjotr Ivanovich, not have one hundred rubles?

Derived terms

centa (“hundredth”)
cento (“a hundred”, noun)
centobla (“hundredfold”)
centono (“a hundredth”)
centopo (“a group of a hundred”)
centuma (“centesimal”)
ducent (“two hundred”)
elcento, pocento, procento (“percent”)
jarcento (“century”)
kvarcent (“four hundred”)
kvincent (“five hundred”)
naŭcent (“nine hundred”)
okcent (“eight hundred”)
sepcent (“seven hundred”)
sescent (“six hundred”)
tricent (“three hundred”)

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Inherited from Latin centum.

Numeral

cent (ORB, broad)

hundred

References

cent in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
cent in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

Etymology 1

**French numbers ^(edit)**
		1,000
^{[a], [b]} ← 90	^{[a], [b]} ← 99	100	200 → ^{[a], [b]}	1,000 →
		10
Cardinal: cent Ordinal: centième Ordinal abbreviation: 100e, (now nonstandard) 100ème Multiplier: centuple
French Wikipedia article on 100

Inherited from Middle French cent, from Old French cent, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kəntom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sɑ̃/, (liaison) /sɑ̃t‿/
Audio: (file)
Homophones: sang, sangs, sans, sens, sent
Rhymes: -ɑ̃

Numeral

cent m (plural cents or (obsolete) cens)

hundred
- 1775, N. J. Saladin, Leçons de mathématiques, publiées par ordres de MM. les magistrats de la Ville de Lille : A l’usage des Élèves de leur École publique des Sciences & des Arts, Lille: […] J. B. Henry, […], page 70:
  857324, 162486, 346896, 437916, 423147, 248106, 235421, 261734, 368149. Octillion, Septillion, Sextillion, Quintillion, Quadrillion, Trillion, Billion, Million, Unité. On imagina de le partager par ſixains, (c’eſt-à-dire par tranches de ſix chiffres chacune) allant de droite à gauche, & chaque ſixain reçut le nom d’unité, de million, de billion, de trillion, &c. ſelon ſon rang. Le dernier chiffre à gauche de chaque ſixain exprime donc des cens mille, le cinquième des dix mille, le quatrième des milles, le troiſième des cens, le ſecond des dixaines, & le premier des unités; ainſi, le dernier ſixain étant des octillions, on a 857324 octillions, c’eſt-à-dire, huit cens cinquante-ſept mille trois cens vingt-quatre octillions: on pourſuivra aiſément d’énoncer le reſte de ce grand nombre, en diſant: cent ſoixante-deux mille quatre cens quatre-vingt-ſix ſeptillions, trois cens quarante-ſix mille huit-cens quatre-vingt-ſeize ſextillions, quatre cens trente-ſept mille neuf cens ſeize quintillions, quatre cens vingt-trois mille cent quarante-ſept quadrillions, deux cens quarante-huit mille cent ſix trillions, deux cens trente-cinq mille quatre cens vingt-un billions, deux cens ſoixante-un mille ſept cens trente-quatre millions, trois cens ſoixante-huit mille cent quarante-nuef unités.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Coordinate terms

(200) deux-cents (“two hundred”)
(300) trois-cents (“three hundred”)
(400) quatre-cents (“four hundred”)
(500) cinq-cents (“five hundred”)
(600) six-cents (“six hundred”)
(700) sept-cents (“seven hundred”)
(800) huit-cents (“eight hundred”)
(900) neuf-cents (“nine hundred”)

Derived terms

Related terms

centi-

Descendants

Guianese Creole: san
Haitian Creole: san
Louisiana Creole: sen
Mauritian Creole: san
Réunion Creole French: san
→ Garifuna: san

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English cent, itself from Old French.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sɛnt/, /sɛn/
Homophone: cents

Noun

cent m (plural cents)

(money) cent (one-hundredth of a dollar or of a euro)
Synonym: centime

Synonyms

(dollar): cenne (colloquial, Canada), sou (slang, North America)

Descendants

Haitian Creole: san
→ Arabic: سنت (sant)
→ Garifuna: san

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kəntom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʃɛnt/, /sɛnt/

Numeral

cent

hundred

Hungarian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɛnt]
Hyphenation: cent
Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

cent (plural centek)

(money) cent (a subunit of currency)
(informal) centilitre
Synonym: centiliter

Declension

Inflection (stem in *-e-*, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	cent	centek
accusative	centet	centeket
dative	centnek	centeknek
instrumental	centtel	centekkel
causal-final	centért	centekért
translative	centté	centekké
terminative	centig	centekig
essive-formal	centként	centekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	centben	centekben
superessive	centen	centeken
adessive	centnél	centeknél
illative	centbe	centekbe
sublative	centre	centekre
allative	centhez	centekhez
elative	centből	centekből
delative	centről	centekről
ablative	centtől	centektől
non-attributive possessive – singular	centé	centeké
non-attributive possessive – plural	centéi	centekéi

Possessive forms of *cent*
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	centem	centjeim
2nd person sing.	cented	centjeid
3rd person sing.	centje	centjei
1st person plural	centünk	centjeink
2nd person plural	centetek	centjeitek
3rd person plural	centjük	centjeik

Derived terms

Compound words

Ido

**Ido numbers ^(edit)**
← 90	← 99	100	1,000 →
		10
Cardinal: cent Ordinal: centesma Adverbial: centfoye Multiplier: centopla Fractional: centima

Etymology 1

Back-formation from cento.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡sɛnt/

Numeral

cent

hundred (100)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English cent, French cent, German Cent, Italian cent, Russian цент (cent), Spanish centavo.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sent/, /t͡sent/

Noun

cent (plural cents or cent-i)

(numismatics) cent

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cent.

Noun

cent m (invariable)

cent (US coin)
euro cent (European coin)

Lombard

Etymology

From centum.

Pronunciation

(Milanese) IPA^(key): /tʃẽnt/
(Ticinese) IPA^(key): /ʃent/
(Eastern) IPA^(key): /hɛnt/, /sɛnt/

Numeral

cent

hundred

References

https://navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it/

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kəntom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

Audio (Béarn): (file)

Numeral

cent

hundred

Derived terms

centen

Old French

Alternative forms

çant, ceint, chent

Etymology

From Latin centum.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tsent/, (late) /sãnt/

Numeral

cardinal number
100	Previous:	nonante et nuef
100	Next:	cent et un

cent oblique singular, m (oblique plural cenz or centz, nominative singular cenz or centz, nominative plural cent)

one hundred

Descendants

Middle French: cent
- French: cent (see there for further descendants)
Norman: chent
Walloon: cint
→ Dutch: cent (from either English or French) (see there for further descendants)
→ Middle English: cent
- English: cent (see there for further descendants)

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

cent

Wikipedia ^pl

Alternative forms

cynt (Zagórze)

Etymology

Internationalism; compare English cent, French cent, German Cent, ultimately from Latin centum. Doublet of sto.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛnt/

(Lesser Poland):
- (Goral):
  - (Żywiec) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɛnt]

Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -ɛnt
Syllabification: cent

Noun

cent m animal (diminutive cencik, related adjective centowy)

cent (subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries; symbol: ¢)
(Żywiec) synonym of cetnar

Declension

Declension of cent

	singular	plural
nominative	cent	centy
genitive	centa	centów
dative	centowi	centom
accusative	centa	centy
instrumental	centem	centami
locative	cencie	centach
vocative	cencie	centy

Derived terms

adverbs

co do centa

nouns

Related terms

adjectives

centusiowski

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English cent.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡sênt/

Noun

cȅnt m inan (Cyrillic spelling це̏нт)

cent (hundredth of a dollar, euro, etc.)
(music) cent (hundredth of a semitone)

Declension

Declension of *cent*
	singular	plural
nominative	cȅnt	cȅnti
genitive	centa	cȇntā
dative	centu	centima
accusative	cȅnt	cente
vocative	centu / cente	centi
locative	centu	centima
instrumental	centom	centima

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈθent/ [ˈθẽn̪t̪] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
IPA^(key): /ˈsent/ [ˈsẽn̪t̪] (Latin America, Philippines)
Rhymes: -ent
Syllabification: cent

Noun

cent m (plural cents)

cent (subunit of euro)
Synonym: céntimo

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English cent.

Noun

cent c

cent; a subunit of currency

Declension

Declension of **cent**
		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	cent	cents
singular	definite	centen	centens
plural	indefinite	cent	cents
plural	definite	centen	centens

References

Hur ska vi hantera euro?, Forskningscentralen för de inhemska språken, February 8, 2007
Euro, Språkrådet, Veckans språkråd 2002

[1] Philippa, Marlies; Debrabandere, Frans; Quak, Arend; Schoonheim, Tanneke; van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009), Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

[1]

English

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Catalan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Numeral

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Noun

See also

Etymology 2

Noun

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Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

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Descendants

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Esperanto

Etymology

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Number

Derived terms

Further reading

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Numeral

References

French

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Numeral

Coordinate terms

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Descendants

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

Synonyms

Descendants

See also

Further reading

Friulian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Numeral

Hungarian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

Ido

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Numeral

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

Italian

Etymology

Noun

Lombard