Etymology

centimo

cen·ti·mo
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Today it means: A cent, i.e. ¹⁄₁₀₀, of certain (mainly historic) Iberian and Latin American currencies, and presently of the euro (coinage version in Spanish), as a coin or theoretic value. Full definition →

Spanish céntimo ← French centime
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The story

  1. French · derived fromcentime
  2. Spanish · borrowed fromcéntimo
  3. English todaycentimo

Borrowed from Spanish céntimo, derived from French centime, from cent (on the model of décime), from centum (“hundred”). Doublet of centim, centime, and santim.

Words from the same roots

Frenchcentime all →

centimesantim

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