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Yes. The word centum is a Scrabble US word. The word centum is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is centum a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word centum is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

CENTUM,

5-letter words (2 found)

CENTU,UNMET,

4-letter words (10 found)

CENT,CUNT,CUTE,MENT,MENU,MUNT,MUTE,NEUM,TUNE,UNCE,

3-letter words (18 found)

CUE,CUM,CUT,ECU,EMU,MEN,MET,MEU,MUN,MUT,NET,NUT,TEC,TEN,TUM,TUN,UME,UTE,

2-letter words (11 found)

EM,EN,ET,ME,MU,NE,NU,TE,UM,UN,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 43 words from centum according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of centum

centum

Alternative forms

  • Centum

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin centum (“hundred”), attested at least since 1890s. Its use in linguistics is due to it being a canonical example of a word retaining an original velar stop, as opposed to Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬙𐬆𐬨 (satəm). Doublet of hundred and satem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɛntəm/
  • IPA(key): (proscribed) /ˈsɛntəm/
  • Rhymes: -ɛntəm

Adjective

centum (not comparable)

  1. (Indo-European studies) Referring to an Indo-European language that did not produce sibilants from a series of Proto-Indo-European palatovelar stops.
    Antonym: satem
Derived terms
  • centumization

Etymology 2

Calque of Sanskrit शतक (śataka, “a hundred; a satakam”). The latter meaning is attested at least since 1991 and is explained by 100-point academic grading in India.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛntəm/

Noun

centum (plural centums)

  1. (Sanskrit and other Indian philology) Satakam, set of one hundred verses connected by the same metre or topic.
  2. (India) Perfect score on a board exam.

See also

  • per centum

Anagrams

  • cutmen

Italian

Adjective

centum (invariable)

  1. Only used in lingua centum

Latin

Alternative forms

  • Symbol: C

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Formal cognates include Sanskrit शत (śata), Old Church Slavonic съто (sŭto), and Old English hund (whence English hundred, with an attached suffix).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈken.tum/, [ˈkɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃen.tum/, [ˈt͡ʃɛn̪t̪um]

Numeral

centum (indeclinable)

  1. a hundred; 100

Usage notes

The numeral centum behaves like an indeclinable adjective. See Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers for additional information.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Unsorted borrowings (many of them via Romance):

See also

  • Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

References

  • “centum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “centum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • centum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • centum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin centum.

Adjective

centum m or n (feminine singular centumă, masculine plural centumi, feminine and neuter plural centume)

  1. centum

Declension


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