centum

alternative Centum

1. Indo European studiesnot comparableReferring to an Indo-European language that did not produce sibilants from a series of Proto-Indo-European palatovelar stops.

   Table 10.1 shows the relative chronology of centum and satem entries to the west. Along each trajectory, centum languages precede satem languages, and the frontier languages, thos most clearly showing peripheral type shift, are centum.

   2003, Johanna Nichols, Archaeology and Language II: Archaeological Data and Linguistic Hypotheses

   Antonyms: satem

plural centums · alternative Centum

1. Sanskrit and other Indian philologySatakam, set of one hundred verses connected by the same metre or topic.

   Tonda-mandala-sātacam, a centum of verses on the Conjeveram country, No. 148, C. M. 73. The sātacam is a poem of one hundred stanzas, in its appropriate metre.

   1847, William Taylor, Madras Journal of Literature and Science

   1 more example

   Norman Cutler's Songs of Experience: The Poetics of Tamil Devotion (1987) provides a partial translation, choosing to translate just 50 hymns from the first two centums and a few phalasrutis, or the signature stanzas.

   2017, Language, Culture and Power: English–Tamil in Modern India, 1900 to Present Day

2. IndiaPerfect score on a board examination.

   Ramesh scored a centum in mathematics.

   2004, K. R. Narayanaswamy, A Teacher's Grammar of English

   2 more examples

   Achyuta Satakam is a centum in Prakrit Language; Devanayaka Panchasat (the fifty on Devanayaka), in sanskrit and several poetical works in Tamil.

   1991, A. Srinivasa Raghavan, The Life and Works of Sri Nigamanta Maha Desikan

   Though he secured a centum in mathematics, he failed to secure pass marks in other subjects.

   1998, K. Srinivasa Rao, Srinivasa Ramanujan: A Mathematical Genius

1. not comparableAlternative letter-case form of centum.