# cent
## English
### Alternative forms

* (abbreviations): cent.

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

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.
** 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.
    He blew every last cent.
* (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 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

* bitcent
* centage
* cent percent
* dollar-and-cent
* Fugio cent
* half cent
* red cent
* ten-cent store
* ten-cent tour
* ten-cent word
* twenty-five cent word

#### Related terms

* centennial
* centi-
* centipede
* centurion
* century

#### Descendants

* → Cantonese: 仙 (sin$^1$)
* → Catalan: cent
* → French: cent
* → Georgian: ცენტი (cenṭi)
* → Hebrew: סנט (sent)
* → Italian: cent
* → Korean: 센트 (senteu)
* → Malay: sen
* → Min Nan: 仙 (sian)
* → 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

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### See also

* dollar
* euro
* per cent
* two cents

### References

* 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.

### Anagrams

* NCTE, tecn-

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard)
** (before the words "anys", "homes", "hores") IPA: /ˈsent/
** (any other position) IPA: /ˈsen/
* (Valencia) and (Balearic) IPA: /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

* cent per cent
* per cent

#### Noun

cent m (plural cents)
* hundred

#### See also

* 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”)

### 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”)

### Further reading

* “cent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “cent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “cent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “cent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Dutch
### Etymology

Either a borrowing from English cent or a shortened borrowed from French centime.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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

* centiem
* dollarcent
* eurocent
* fluitje van een cent
* rooie cent

#### 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
### Etymology

From Latin centum. Doublet of cendo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [t͡sent]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: 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

* 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

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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)

##### Derived terms

* cent pour cent
* cent sept ans
* centaine
* centenaire
* centésimal
* centième
* centigrade
* centime
* centuple
* centupler
* cinq cents
* deux cents
* en un mot comme en cent
* faire les cent pas
* guerre de Cent Ans
* huit cents
* neuf cents
* pourcent
* quatre cents
* sept cents
* six cents
* trois cents
* un point fait à temps en épargne cent

##### Related terms

* centi-

##### Descendants

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

##### See also

* 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”)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English cent, itself from Old French.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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

##### See also

* franc
* dollar

### Further reading

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

## Friulian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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: [ˈt͡sɛnt]
* Hyphenation: cent
* Rhymes: -ɛnt

### Noun

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

#### Derived terms

* centes
* centnyi
* dollárcent
* eurócent

### Further reading

* 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 2024).

## Ido
### Etymology 1

Back-formation from cento.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t͡sɛnt/

#### Numeral

cent
* hundred (100)

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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

* IPA: /tʃẽnt/ (Milan)
* IPA: /ʃent/ (Ticino)
* IPA: /hɛnt/, /sɛnt/ (Eastern)

### Numeral

cent
* hundred

### References

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

## Occitan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Numeral

cent
* hundred

#### Derived terms

* centen

### Further reading

* Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 242.

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* çant, ceint, chent

### Etymology

From Latin centum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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)
* Walloon: cint
* → Dutch: cent (see there for further descendants)
* → English: cent (see there for further descendants)

## Polish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡sɛnt/
* (Lesser Poland):
** (Goral):
*** (Żywiec) IPA: /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

#### Derived terms

* co do centa
* centówka
* centuś
* złamany cent

#### Related terms

* centusiowski

### Further reading

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

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English cent.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t͡sênt/

### Noun

cȅnt m (Cyrillic spelling це̏нт)
* cent (hundredth of a dollar, euro, etc.)
* (music) cent (hundredth of a semitone)

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Noun

cent m (plural cents)
* cent (subunit of euro)
    Synonym: céntimo

### Further reading

* “cent”, 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

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English cent.

### Noun

cent c
* cent; a subunit of currency

#### Declension
### References

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