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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cen•tum1 (sen′təm),USA pronunciation n. - Mathematicsone hundred.
cen•tum2 (ken′təm, -tŏŏm),USA pronunciation adj. - Linguisticsbelonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family of languages that show distinctive preservation of the Proto-Indo-European labiovelars and that show a historical development of velar articulations, as the sounds (k) or (kh), from Proto-Indo-European palatal phonemes. The centum branches are Germanic, Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, Anatolian, and Tocharian. Cf. satem.
- Latin, exemplifying in c- the outcome of Indo-European palato-velar stops characteristic of the group
- 1900–05
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