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- Latin · derived fromcentum“a hundred”
- Latin · derived fromcenturiō, centuriōnis“a commander of a hundred, centurion”
- Middle English · inherited fromcenturioun
- English todaycenturion
From Middle English centurioun, from Latin centuriō, centuriōnis (“a commander of a hundred, centurion”), from Latin centum (“a hundred”). Displaced native English hundreder and hundredman, from Middle English hundredman, from Old English hundredmann (“centurion”).
Words from the same roots
Latincentum all →
centcentumcentagecental
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.