# centuria
## Asturian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin centuria.

### Noun

centuria f (plural centuries)
* century (100 years)

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin centuria.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t͡ʃenˈtu.rja/
* Rhymes: -urja
* Hyphenation: cen‧tù‧ria

### Noun

centuria f (plural centurie)
* century (Roman army unit)

### Anagrams

* centauri, cunterai, incuterà, rutenica

## Latin
### Etymology

*centu-viria, from centum (“one hundred”) +‎ vir (“man”) +‎ -ia.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kenˈtu.ri.a/, [kɛn̪ˈt̪ʊriä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /t͡ʃenˈtu.ri.a/, [t͡ʃen̪ˈt̪uːriä]

### Noun

centuria f (genitive centuriae); first declension
* century, in its senses as
** any assembly of a hundred people or things
** any division into a hundred people or things
** (historical military) a company of Roman infantry, the smallest tactical division of a legion, originally of 100 men but later varying between 60 and 160
** (historical military) a company of auxiliary infantry equivalent to a Roman cohort, first established during the Imperial era.
** (historical units of measure) a unit of area, equal to 100 heredia or 200 iugera (approximately 125 acres or 50 hectares)
** (historical politics) a traditional division of the Roman people, allegedly established by Servius Tullius on the basis of property
* (figuratively) any similar division, regardless of number

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Meronyms

* (unit of soldiers): contubernium ($^1$⁄$_{10}$ centuria after 107 BC); manipulus (2 centuriae after c. 315 BC); cohors (6 centuriae after 107 BC), legio (notionally 60 centuriae)
* (unit of area): decempeda ($^1$⁄$_{57,600}$ centuria); clima ($^1$⁄$_{1600}$ centuria); actus ($^1$⁄$_{400}$ centuria); iugerum ($^1$⁄$_{200}$ centuria); heredium ($^1$⁄$_{100}$ centuria); saltus (4 centuriae)
* (political assembly): comitia centuriata (quorum of the 193 centuriae)

#### Derived terms

* centuriālis
* centuriātim
* centuriō

#### Related terms

* centum

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: centurie
* → Asturian: centuria
* → Catalan: centúria
* → Galician: centuria
* → German: Zenturie
* → Italian: centuria
* → Old French: centurie
** French: centurie
** → Middle English: centurie
*** English: century
*** Scots: centurie
* → Polish: centuria
* → Portuguese: centúria
* → Romanian: centurie
* → Russian: центу́рия (centúrija)
* → Spanish: centuria

### References

* ↑ T. Mommsen, Römisches Staatsrecht, III.1, Leipzig 1887, p. 104
* “centuria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “centuria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* centuria in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* centuria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to obtain many (few) votes in a century or tribe: multa (pauca) puncta in centuria (tribu) aliqua ferre to gain the vote of a century or tribe: centuriam, tribum ferre (Planc. 49) to be elected unanimousl: omnes centurias ferre or omnium suffragiis, cunctis centuriis creari
* “centuria”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* centuria in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* “centuria”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Polish
### Alternative forms

* cencuria (Przemyśl)

### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin centuria.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t͡sɛnˈtu.rja/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -urja
* Syllabification: cen‧tu‧ria

### Noun

centuria f
* century (Roman army unit)
* centaury (any herb of the genus Centaurium)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* centuria in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* centuria in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin centuria.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /θenˈtuɾja/ [θẽn̪ˈt̪u.ɾja]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /senˈtuɾja/ [sẽn̪ˈt̪u.ɾja]
* Rhymes: -uɾja
* Syllabification: cen‧tu‧ria

### Noun

centuria f (plural centurias)
* century (Roman army unit)
    Synonym: siglo
* (poetic) century (period)

#### Related terms

* centurión
* ciento

### Further reading

* “centuria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10