The story
- Latin · derived fromcentēsimō
- Latin · borrowed fromcentēsimātus
- English todaycentesimate
First attested in 1753; borrowed from Latin centēsimātus, perfect passive participle of the Latin centēsimō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from centēsimus (“hundredth”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); compare tertiate, quintate, sextate, septimate, decimate, and duodecimate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.