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Definitions for Centum
[1] one hundred.
[2] 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 ] /x/ , from Proto-Indo-European palatal phonemes. The centum branches are Germanic, Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, Anatolian, and Tocharian.
[3] 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
Words nearby Centum
centrosphere, centrostaltic, centrosymmetric, centrum, cents-off, centum, centuple, centuplicate, centurial, centuried, centurion
Origin of Centum
21900–05; < Latin, exemplifying in c- the outcome of IE palato-velar stops characteristic of the group
Word origin for Centum
Latin: hundred , chosen because the c represents the Indo-European k