"hundred" in seven languages
Meaninghundred
Spanish
cien
/θjen/
inherited
Ciento before another number: ciento uno, ciento veinte.
French
cent
/sɑ̃/
inherited
Italian
cento
/ˈtʃɛnto/
inherited
Portuguese
cem
/sẽj/
inherited
Cento before another number: cento e um, cento e vinte.
Romanian
sută
/ˈsutə/
fem.other source · Old Church Slavonic sъto 'hundred'
A Slavic loan, used as a feminine noun: o sută, două sute.
Catalan
cent
/sen/
inherited
English
hundred
/ˈhʌndɹəd/
Indo-European kin · PIE *ḱm̥tóm
English → ItalianhundredcentoDistant cognateRelated only through Indo-European, thousands of years back (night ~ noche). But English has relatives: cent, century, percent, centipede.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
CENTUM‘hundred’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
The textbook example of soft c: CENTUM → cien [θ], cent [s], cento [tʃ].
English relatives: cent, century, percent, centipede
Sound laws at work
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In a sentence
- esCuesta cien euros.
- frÇa coûte cent euros.
- itCosta cento euro.
- ptCusta cem euros.
- roCostă o sută de euro.
- caCosta cent euros.
- enIt costs a hundred euros.