The story
- Latin · derived fromcentēnārius“containing 100”
- Middle French · derived fromcentenier
- Middle English · inherited fromcentener, centiner, centyner
- English todaycentenier
From Middle English centener, centiner, centyner, from Middle French centenier, from Latin centēnārius (“containing 100”), q.v.
Words from the same roots
Latincentēnārius all →
centenary
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.