cent

• (abbreviations): cent.

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

• Rhymes: -ɛnt
• enPR: sĕnt, IPA^(key): /sɛnt/

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• Homophones: scent, sent

cent (plural cents or cent)

2. (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.

3. (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.

4. (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
5. (money) A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).
7. (music) A hundredth of a semitone or half step.
8. (nuclear physics) A unit of reactivity equal to one hundredth of a dollar.
9. Abbreviation of century.
10. (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.

11. Abbreviation of centigrade.
12. Abbreviation of center.

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

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

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “cent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “cent”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• NCTE, tecn-

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

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

• (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

cent m or f

1. (cardinal number) hundred

• 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.

• cent per cent
• per cent

cent m (plural cents)

1. hundred

• dos-cents m (“two hundred”), dues-centes f (“two hundred”)
  • Old Catalan: doents (“two hundred”)
• tres-cents (“three hundred”)
• quatre-cents (“four hundred”)
• cinc-cents (“five hundred”)
• sis-cents (“six hundred”)
• set-cents (“seven hundred”)
• vuit-cents (“eight hundred”)
• nou-cents (“nine hundred”)

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.

cent m (plural cents)

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

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

• “cent”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “cent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “cent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “cent”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

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

• IPA^(key): /sɛnt/

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• Hyphenation: cent
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

cent f (plural centen, diminutive centje n)

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

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

Esperanto numbers ^(edit)

		1,000
←  90	←  99	100	200  →	1,000  →
		10
Cardinal: cent     Ordinal: centa     Adverbial: cente     Multiplier: centobla, centopa     Fractional: centona, centono

From Latin centum. Doublet of cendo.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sent/

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• Rhymes: -ent
• Syllabification: cent

cent

1. 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?

• “cent”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “cent”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Inherited from Latin centum.

cent (ORB, broad)

1. hundred

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

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.

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃/, (liaison) /sɑ̃t‿/

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• Homophones: sang, sangs, sans, sens, sent
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃

cent m (plural cents or (obsolete) cens)

1. 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.

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• centi-

• Haitian Creole: san
• Louisiana Creole: sen
• → Garifuna: san

• deux cents (“two hundred”)
• trois cents (“three hundred”)
• quatre cents (“four hundred”)
• cinq cents (“five hundred”)
• six cents (“six hundred”)
• sept cents (“seven hundred”)
• huit cents (“eight hundred”)
• neuf cents (“nine hundred”)

Borrowed from English cent, itself from Old French.

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

cent m (plural cents)

1. (money) cent (one-hundredth of a dollar or of a euro)

   Synonym: centime

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

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

• franc
• dollar

• “cent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

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

• IPA^(key): /tʃɛnt/, /sɛnt/

cent

1. hundred

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

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

cent (plural centek)

1. (money) cent (a subunit of currency)
2. (informal) centilitre

   Synonym: centiliter

• cent in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2026).

Ido numbers ^(edit)

←  90	←  99	100	1,000  →
		10
Cardinal: cent     Ordinal: centesma     Adverbial: centfoye     Multiplier: centopla     Fractional: centima

Back-formation from cento.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sɛnt/

cent

1. hundred (100)

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

• IPA^(key): /sent/, /t͡sent/

cent (plural cents or cent-i)

1. (numismatics) cent

Unadapted borrowing from English cent.

cent m (invariable)

1. cent (US coin)
2. euro cent (European coin)

From centum.

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

cent

1. hundred

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

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

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cent

1. hundred

• centen

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006), Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[1], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 242

• çant, ceint, chent

From Latin centum.

• IPA^(key): /tsent/, (late) /sãnt/

cardinal number

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

1. one hundred

• 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)

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

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt
• Syllabification: cent

cent m animal (diminutive cencik, related adjective centowy)

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

• “cent”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “cent”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)
• cent in PWN's encyclopedia
• Leon Rzeszowski (1891), “cent”, in “Spis wyrazów ludowych z okolic Żywca”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności‎^[4], volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 354

Borrowed from English cent.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sênt/

cȅnt m inan (Cyrillic spelling це̏нт)

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

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

cent m (plural cents)

1. cent (subunit of euro)

   Synonym: céntimo

• “cent”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from English cent.

cent c

1. cent; a subunit of currency

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