CENTUM → cien · cent · cento
Latin's hard c, softened before e: Spanish θ, Italian tʃ, French, Portuguese and Catalan s. Romanian lost CENTUM and counts hundreds with sută, a Slavic loan. English hundred is the Germanic distant cognate of CENTUM, from the same Indo-European number.
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CENTUM
‘hundred’
Classical Latin: c is always k
Classical Latin: c is always k
Classical Latin: c is always k
Classical Latin: c is always k
No inherited descendant
Classical Latin: c is always k
Latin's hard c, softened before e: Spanish θ, Italian tʃ, French, Portuguese and Catalan s. Romanian lost CENTUM and counts hundreds with sută, a Slavic loan. English hundred is the Germanic distant cognate of CENTUM, from the same Indo-European number.
Forms are written in IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet: one symbol, one sound. Stressed syllables carry ˈ. Dates are approximate and given only where the handbooks agree. 24 word journeys.