ciento

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

From Spanish ciento.

Numeral

ciento

  1. hundred.

Latin

Verb

cientō

  1. third-person plural future active imperative of cieō

Spanish
Spanish numbers (edit)
1,000
 ←  90  ←  99 100 101  →  200  → 
10
    Cardinal: cien, (before lower numerals) ciento
    Ordinal: centésimo
    Ordinal abbreviation: 100.º
    Multiplier: céntuplo
    Fractional: centésimo, centavo, céntimo
Spanish Wikipedia article on 100

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθjento/ [ˈθjẽn̪.t̪o]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈsjento/ [ˈsjẽn̪.t̪o]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ento
  • Syllabification: cien‧to
  • Homophone: (depending on region) siento

Number

ciento

  1. one hundred (100) (only in compounds followed by lower numerals)
    Ciento dos personas vinieron.
    One hundred and two people came.

Usage notes

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Cebuano: siyento
  • → Chayuco Mixtec: ziendu
  • → Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: ciento
  • → Lake Miwok: ṣijénto
  • → Tagalog: siyento

Noun

ciento m (plural cientos)

  1. hundred (100 units of something)
    Compré dos cientos de manzanas.
    I bought two hundred apples.
    (literally, “I bought two hundreds of apples”)
  2. (in the plural) hundreds (an indefinite number consisting of several hundred)

Further reading
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